"Perhaps you may not want anything here and now, but something in the future.” The Hive Queen smiled as she looked around. "I have been meaning to ask, but where are we? My awareness of the outside world was limited while within the egg."
Jake considered her words about debt and was a bit surprised at her change of subject. She’d seemed to realize it was a dead topic and shifted the conversation—something Jake was more than happy to do. "This is the Order of the Malefic Viper. Ah, the Malefic Viper is—"
"One of the twelve Primordials.” The Hive Queen nodded.
"Huh… How do you even know that? How do you know, well, a bunch of things? Were you sealed inside the egg or something while in D-grade?"
The Hive Queen looked at him and shook her head. "For being my sire, your lack of comprehens
