"I have a very, very good explanation for both, I promise."
He pointed to Will. "There was some kind of giant bug that crawled up on your back--your back was away from the rest of the group so they weren't seeing it. We're talking..."
He held out his hands to show how big it was.
"Pretty big. And it had a very, very large stinger. I figured if I yelled 'Hey, you have a big stingy monster bug on your back!' you'd freak out--understandably--and get stung, so I jumped in and swiped it off and was trying to kill it. Then it skittered off while you were all trying to shoot me, and you knocked the wind out of me with that little lightning trick you did, so I was out of breath, since you actually shorted out some of the suit's systems and, um, it hurt. Which was why I couldn't talk at first. I spotted it again and the scarab reacted, wanting me to shoot it, because it's not the brightest bug sometimes when it's gunning for something."
There was the mental equivalent of a "hmph" from the scarab at that, but Jaime ignored it.
"...Annnd now I don't see it anywhere, so everyone should keep the Space-raid handy because that means it's running loose around the...whatever it is we're in."
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He pointed to Will. "There was some kind of giant bug that crawled up on your back--your back was away from the rest of the group so they weren't seeing it. We're talking..."
He held out his hands to show how big it was.
"Pretty big. And it had a very, very large stinger. I figured if I yelled 'Hey, you have a big stingy monster bug on your back!' you'd freak out--understandably--and get stung, so I jumped in and swiped it off and was trying to kill it. Then it skittered off while you were all trying to shoot me, and you knocked the wind out of me with that little lightning trick you did, so I was out of breath, since you actually shorted out some of the suit's systems and, um, it hurt. Which was why I couldn't talk at first. I spotted it again and the scarab reacted, wanting me to shoot it, because it's not the brightest bug sometimes when it's gunning for something."
There was the mental equivalent of a "hmph" from the scarab at that, but Jaime ignored it.
"...Annnd now I don't see it anywhere, so everyone should keep the Space-raid handy because that means it's running loose around the...whatever it is we're in."