Arachne didn't understand what was happening. She had been sleeping in her cave, but when she woke up, she was no longer in her cave, but in a large open meadow. She also wasn't alone in the meadow. There were also strange doll sized creatures around here she had never seen before. Though the creatures were smaller compared to her, they were numerous and she didn't have a chance to fight back, especially since she was only five years old and in a very confused state of mind. The strange creatures forced her into a large wooden crate without much of a fight. Arachne didn't attack the doll sized creatures, she only pleaded for them to stop.
Days past as the small creatures that had the same sort of upper half as her, but only two legs and no spider body kept her in the crate and only opened it to threw food into it. Arachne cried nearly the entire time. She didn't understand why she was being kidnapped by such strange creatures and why they were treating her so poorly. Arachne even started believing that this whole experience was a dream, but it was no dream and she was really being taken away by strange little monsters that were treating her as if she was some kind of giant savage beast.
Because Arachne was a dridder and still young, she couldn't understand why the strange little creatures thought she was some monstrous creature. Plus, their claims that she would eat them seemed absurd to her. It was true that most Felaryan top predators defined a person by their size rather than their intelligence. This was the whole reason why Felaryan predators deemed it morally permissible to eat humans since they were little despite the fact they were a sentient being like themselves. Too them, if they were large enough to eat something, they felt it was right to do so. What they didn't realize was that just because one has the power to do something, it doesn't always mean they should.
Arachne, however, didn't have these views yet. Like many dridders, she was left on her own to survive. This meant that the Felaryan moral system wasn't taught to her. Like all dridders and nearly every other Felaryan top predator, Arachne had the fascination of eating smaller creatures. She enjoying swallowing squirrels and rabbits whole. Though, she had never met a human before and didn't even know what they were. She understood they were intelligent beings that could even speak her language and with an added bonus of her curiosity, Arachne had no wishes of eating a person. This was the case for most dridders who were forced to live on their own. However, it usually changed with growth and humans eventually became too small to befriend dridders who had a fascination to eat small creatures. Dridders realize upon their growth that they have to power to do whatever they want with small beings and they had the choice to eat them or not. Besides, who could believe such small beings that are clearly a different species should be given the same rights: the thought that many Felaryans learn to accept.
Eventually, Arachne was let out of the crate and she found herself in a large chamber. The chamber was dark and creepy. A place that reminded her of home. However, the creatures forced her into chains which she couldn't break free from. This was the part that she hated and was afraid of. "Why are you doing this to me?" Arachne asked the small creatures, "Why am I here and why are you chaining me up like an animal?"
The creatures never answered her and just walked away. Arachne cried for a long time trying to will herself that it was only a dream. However, she never woke up in her cave and she continued to be trapped in her chains. Arachne tried to make herself better by making a large web so that she could feel more at home. However, it wasn't working. Nothing was changing the fact that she had been kidnapped, was far away from her home, and that there were chains. She was a prisoner.
Suddenly, the door had opened and, fearing that more of those little creatures had come to hurt her again, Arachne quickly backed into the corner of the cell where she had placed her webbing to make a fort-like sleeping area for herself. This would be the spot where she would rest and stay hidden from creatures until they became trapped in her web. Arachne only hoped the doll-sized creatures wouldn't find her in the corner.
Arachne had expected to see more of the creatures that wore the shinny clothing (armor), but to her surprise a cart filled with two deer and a large bowl of water came into the room first followed by a smaller creature pushing the cart. It was clear that this new small creature was different from the other creatures that kidnapped and hurt her. They were the same species, but this small creature was smaller than the others and younger. This little creature didn't wear the shinny clothing, but instead wore old and dirty clothes that were so worn that they looked more useful as rags rather than clothing. Arachne stared at the new creature with great curiosity as it approached closer.
"This one is different from the others. Maybe it will act differently and not harm me. Maybe I can ask it what I'm doing here?" Arachne wondered. However, she saw the fear in the creature's face. "He thinks I'm a monster like the other creatures think I am. He might hurt me like the others and treat me like a beast," Arachne assumed. Arachne decided it was best not to risk provoking the creature to attack her.
Arachne noticed that the small creature pushed the cart just before he could reach the other side of the line where she could reach. The small creature then took the large bowl and set it in her reach. "This creature is feeding me," Arachne realized. She still wasn't used to the idea of being fed, but it would be the only way to survive in the lifeless cell. Arachne also didn't like the fact that her food was already dead now, but she didn't dare complain to the little monsters, her captors. Arachne was hungry, but she didn't dare approach the small creature till it was gone.
Suddenly, the small creature slipped and fell in her webbing. Pure instinct took over Arachne and she quickly approached the small creature. Arachne believed the small creature was a dangerous creature, but it was in her webbing now, and anything that got caught in her webbing was her prey.
The small creature struggled and screamed, but nothing happened and he was still stuck in her web. Soon, Arachne was in front of the small creature as it was lying on the ground with pure terror in its face. Arachne licked her lips, wondering what the new small creature would taste like. Arachne bent down and outstretched her arms to pick up the small creature who was slightly less than a fourth of her size. Before her hands could grasp the small creature, the creature pleaded, "Please, stop. Please don't eat me."
The small creature's plea was simple, but it was effective to Arachne. Arachne stopped her reach. She had eaten everything that had gotten caught in her web before, but there was something different about this creature. It was one thing eating a dumb and mindless beast, but it was another thing eating something that could speak and even speak the same language. Though her instincts told her to eat the small creature and be done with it, she was feeling uncomfortable about eating a living being that was pleading and was actually speaking. Arachne looked into the creature's eyes and saw that it was actually crying. Arachne sighed, gasped the small creature's torso with both of her hands on either side and pulled it off the webbing.
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Felix tried to yell for help, but no one would come. No guard would risk his life to save some slave boy. Felix became even more hopeless with he saw the giant dridder heading for him. Felix was in pure shock and terror for a moment as he witnessed the giant dridder. The dridder had the body of a five year old human on top of a spider's body. The spider body was large and black. It was easily the largest part of the dridder. Where the head of a spider normally was, the hips of the human half of the girl emerged. The human part of the dridder had a purple tint to her skin and she had black hair. The dridder's ears were slightly pointed and her eyes were a strange yet beautiful ruby color. Since the dridder was still only five years of age, she was still flat chested, but Felaryans developed more rapidly than other creatures and would have decent sized breasts by the age of eight which only made them seem bigger due to the size difference.
Felix snapped out of his shock and tried to break free, but it was no use and the dridder was soon upon him. The dridder smiled and licked her lips as she bent down to grab him. Felix screamed out as he closed his eyes shut, crying, "Please, stop. Please don't eat me!"
There was a hesitation, but Felix didn't dare open his eyes. Eventually, her felt the large hands grasp him on each side and peel him off the web. "This is it. It's all over," Felix thought to himself. He began to imagine everything Lord William had told him about dridders' eating habits. Felix imagined the fangs biting into him and putting him in to a comatose state while he was wrapped up in webbing. Then, the dridder would ingest his insides in due time. However, none of that happened. Instead, Felix felt ground beneath him and the dridder's hands left from under his arms.
Felix slowly opened his eyes and saw that he was standing on the ground in front of the large dridder no longer on the web. Felix was too confused and too scared to move. All he could do was stare up at the giant dridder as it stared down at him. Felix moved to take a step back and the dridder, in a frightened movement, backed many steps away from Felix. Felix didn't know how to react to this, and he...
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