Below the Nave

An ant queen thinks for the colony that holds up a cathedral. The new bishop wants the crypt fumigated. The ants have been carrying the building's prayers, and one of them has started to answer.

ComfortGentle · PGWonder, dry humor, stone dust, and the seriousness of small livesfull cast audio

Ending promise · contains a broad spoiler

Happily ever after

Series DNA

Queen Silt is the mind of a cathedral colony. When Bishop Marek orders poison for the crypt, she has to make the building show the humans what collapses if the ants leave, without losing the sweeper who has been kind.

Cast

Silt

protagonist · wants Keep the colony and be known as a mind, not an infestation

Bishop Marek

antagonist · wants Make the cathedral smell like a church and not a nest

Nia Pell

witness · wants Keep her work and the ants that have started leaving her whole crumbs of gold leaf

Below the Nave

2,279 published words · 80,000 planned

Ch. 1: Hymns on Stone and Sifted Flour — subscribe to unlock