[ WP ] You are an insect that has lived its entire life without encountering a human ... that changes today .

There's a great many stories I could tell young hatchlings, perhaps even some I probably should n't. Of course in all my life - long even for our standards - I have never known a day like today. Today has been the best day thus far, as it is the most glorious of days! 
 
 It began in the Brightening. I became *aware* after rest as the skylight shone down upon my humble abode, a small crack in the great red cliff. My *aware* times previous have been nothing but a murky, wet and desperate race for survival. Food is limited when the air is watering, and most of my kind do not venture out. Needs must however, and though I survived, many perished, pulled to the ground by an angry sky, throwing its wetness down upon us as we hunted for food, as we survived. 
 
 Those days were nothing like today. The air is dry, the wind is warm. The sky is not angry. Food is aplenty, and our dwindling numbers have only helped those that remain to find sustenance. As I write this, only now has the skylight been temporarily obscured by a large black oblong. It increases in size, but I do not fear, for it shall pass, as the stories tell. On this dryest of days, nothing but feeding, exploring and mating will occur, and it is these to which I look forward to the most, it is these that hold my mind at rest on those wettest of days. I can taste it now, the hint of females in the air, throwing their scen-
