I guess this means I should stop eating stuff that's lying around your room, huh.  A hamster drops off the lintel and peers quizzically at Gear.  If you throw him a parade, are you going to have meatbag pinatas for him to hit or something?

Blue tilts his head to one side.  Was it a spinny purple thing that looked like a giant sunflower seed with tentacles?

"It isn't exactly a poison, I don't know if alchemy is the right field. It... okay, you know how wizards occasionally get drunk or bored or whatever and decide to mix animals together to make weird hybrids? Like owlbears? Well, one of them apparently thought it would be a good idea to combine rust monsters with termites." Shiori coughs. "Um. They have a really fast life cycle, too. As long as they're stored in a properly cool place they don't hatch, but if you take them out it will only take a few hours before a colony starts."

"So... I guess we have one of two problems to worry about. If whoever took the eggs knows what they are, then they probably plan to use them on Unit - or some other warforged, I suppose. And if they don't know, then in a few hours we're going to have a rust termite infestation on our hands."

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"I would think so, yes. But that doesn't sound good for the building or warforged they're infesting."

If Unit's face were articulated for such expressions, it would be a mask of horror.  "That...that's horrible!"