Bowe looked around, and her first instinct was to try and sniff out any peculiar smells that she could chase up. It looked a little weird, and probably sounded it as well, but it worked before - to heck if it won't work now.
As they quietly venture out in the hatching grounds, giving Lux a chance to briefly study the Formic eggs, they heard walking. On instinct, Susan grabbed Lux by his arm and pushes him to a nearby hiding spot, where they saw a Formic drone coming by to check on the eggs.
Nothing so far, aside from the putrid scent... actually, it isn't some normal nasty scent. It kinda smells like... flesh?
Rewby turned to Talia, curious. "You have a flamethrower or something?"
Bowe, upon smelling it, was a bit confused. "Ewww... Bowe smells flesh... It stinks..." She commented honestly, regretting her decision practically immediately. Still, where could it lead to...?
Spinning her head to Bowe, Kqidons looked at the direction Bowe is staring. “Where?” She asked.
Rewby carefully took one of the explosive discs and examined them. “Do these models actually cause fires?” She asked.
The drone, not noticing the duo due to their camouflaging stench, was carefully eyeing at the little and bigger eggs until it divert its focus on an egg stuck onto the wall; it was hatching. The egg pulsates as the infantile drone tries to escape from its soft shell, where it eventually succeeds and fall onto the floor. It looked like a little black larva with legs. The drone the proceeds to carefully grab the larva and makes it way to an exit, seemingly so it can transport the infant Formic into a nursery.
Bowe took a deep breath and (much to her reluctance) tried to identify where this was coming from; just took another quick smell of the surroundings.
Susan walked out alongside Lux and, while waiting for him to finish studying the Formic eggs and their life cycle, pulls out a couple of small disc-shaped land mines and bombs and begins eyeing around the area for suitable places to put them. Once he is done, Susan shows him the explosives.
Rewby gasped and cowered when Talia tossed the highly-reactive explosive onto the air. When it miraculously didn’t go off, she glares at her.
After a quick second, she identified the location of the smell. Onto the left hallway of the hive. The first step to finding the location of the fleshy scent.
Bowe nodded. "It's down here, the left!" Bowe said, nodding and going ahead, hoping Kqidons would rationally follow.
Rewby nodded with a slightly concerned look on her face. "Alright. Just be careful." Rewby warned.
Susan was working alongside Lux to plant the explosives onto the various parts of the hatchery, though she is covering them back up with chunks of the surrounding hive to hide them. When she saw Lux doing the same, she approached him and tapped on his shoulder to get his attention, holding a random chunk of the hive.
"Hey, WAIT!" Kqidons screamed as she rushes in to follow along with Bowe.
Bowe slowed down, but kept heading towards the source she could smell.
