Ramblings :)

‘Aye the ant’ fell. He fell from the ceiling. He had been marching wearily with the rest of the troopers, egged on by the big headed supervising ants, on their way to drag a moth carcass from the over head attic to their nest just outside the room. He had walked that line on the ceiling many times. Today, he had looked down briefly to see if the girl was still asleep, had lost his balance for a second, and fell. He was now midair, free falling. He looked up; sighing at his stupidity. He fell in a straight line onto the girl’s head, getting lodged deep inside her hair. It was dark inside even for an ant and he coughed as some strong smells hit him. Her head must be unpopulated as the Baygon bottle, he groaned. He was sure that no big lice, no small lice, not even a cockroach could stand the morbid chemical smell. He plodded through the black, tangled forest; extricating himself from the numerous knots and traps with great difficulty, finally emerging on the surface, breathing with relief. He found a strand of hair that fell over her face and walking thorough it, landed on the hollow below her neck. ‘Aye the ant’ then took some time to look around and thought; now what? He then looked up; “I did fall a long way down”.

He had never seen the girl so close as this. She is huge. He thought about her four measly legs (only two of which she used. How stupid of her.) He had often seen her; going in and out of the room as he and the troopers went on daily raids through the gaps on the wood ceiling. She didn’t do much, except sleep and then disappear as the sun grew hot. Once, she had thrown a sticky red candy out the window and the colony had feasted on it for two days. A red stickiness melted Aye the ant’s heart. He had an urge to plunge his mouth into her neck. “wonder what she tastes like..hmmm. But no, no. Must remember what the trainer taught him and the others about control. Besides, it made ants age faster if they went around biting larger animals. Of course, sometimes it just made them stop ageing and just die. He chuckled at his own joke. Now what was he trying to do? Yes, he remembered now. Let’s see if I can go down this leg near her face which is small and is dangling down from the edge of the bed. I could reach the floor with a jump and walk up to join the rest of the troopers as they returned with that moth( may it rest in peace).

He started walking as fast as he could, looking up at the ceiling now and then. The supervisors must be shouting now; “Go to the kitchen table!”, “Go pick up that dead lizard!”. Such block heads. The queen was much nicer but she was now so big, one could hardly see her fat face. Aye the ant now walked through the forested surface of the girl, marveling at how big she was. He also wondered how she survived with such a vulnerable outer covering. Anyone could punch a hole in it; he even with his bony shiny skin, found it hard to live with all the sharp objects around. They’re probably yet to evolve such sophisticated surfaces as me, he thought, and sympathetically shook his head, without really meaning it.

Aye now stood on the girl’s thumb nail; the tip of the dangling hand. He looked down. Hmmm. The floor looked hard. He considered the risks and hesitated. Maybe he could walk back and reach the floor through the cot’s legs after all. What was the hurry anyway? Maybe today was the day to do some exploring by himself. He had heard much about big ants who always went on raids alone. Such brave, interesting, great ants. Maybe this was his big chance. He could… Uh oh. The girl’s awake.

Aye couldn’t understand how the giant who was stone asleep until a second ago could’ve jumped up so suddenly. She raised her hand (the one he was reflecting on of course, if anything bad can happen to an ant, it will) and tied her hair up. Great, he was now deposited on her head, again.

He stood up wearily after landing face down on the dumb giant’s forehead. He sighed for a while and then, straightening his antennae, looked ahead, alarmed. He was being carried out of the room by the girl. She shook the floor with her ‘thump thump’ steps as panic ceased him.

He should have jumped when he had the chance. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe. Damn.

The giant now sat her giant bottom down on a chair. Aye’s head wobbled from all the rumble tumble motion. He wanted a second to make sure the giant was still before slowly raising his head. He anxiously moved close to the edge of the girl’s forehead and looked down expectantly. And there it was, an ant century’s worth of food for the colony sprawled out on the table in front. Haa. Sweet lord of all ants, help me fall into that bowl of milk!.. Aye was drunk with delight and went into a reverie. He was shaken out of his dream world full of melted sugar and cookies and milk before long.The girl raised her hand again to her smelly head. Help! Aaah..! What is wrong with you? You and your stupid hair! screamed Aye in his tiny ant's voice as the hair was brushed back and his little ant body was pushed into the tangled mass of hair again. His head had been hit. Pressure. Pressure. Passing out now. Aw.