Arachnid

 

The spider spun a web, forming fractals from silver threads; quite the engineer, an exceptional mathematician.

 

Eager to capture, lying in wait.

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Soon, a firefly buzzed right into the web, strobing and struggling as the spider descended its netting, an eager, eight-legged exterminator.

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And, while I hated to upset the natural order of things, I reflexively swiped at the web, freeing the firefly.

 

Some go hungry. Others are saved.

 

To those insects, I had become god.