Unlike ants, spiders didn’t move as a group. Nor did they move in an almost direct single-file line. But, luckily, these tended to remain close enough to each other to where following them back to their point of origin was a matter of looking for the webs.
Yulen and the others noticed that the webs appeared to be getting larger and more frequent as they advanced toward the mountains. The constructs were strung between the larger rocks and occasional bushes dotting the landscape. Some were as big as the one they’d found in the forest the day before. Storie pointed out that fact, making the comment sound like a question.
“Looks like some only made it out this far and decided to go no farther?”
Yulen agreed. “Or maybe all they needed was to get away from where they’d originally been nestin
