Theo made them all march back to the safe zone, and when he did, he went and threw the dead crawler bodies away, only to see all the dead ants.
Theo didn't know what to feel about them; he knew ants died all the time. It was natural for one or two to go when there were thousands in one place.
But it still didn't feel right to him, the death of all those ants.
He picked up each and every body of the ants on the ground, at least the ones he could find, and kept them at the gate of the castle in hopes that they would get the same respect as the other fallen ones.
'Alright, now listen to what I am going to say, ant queen.' Theo thought through the bond and made it understand every bit of the plan for now.
He knew the ant queen understood it, and when he made some more of the crawlers come toward them.
The ant queen stopped one as specified, while he got rid of the other two.
