What If: Clearsight (Contest)

== Planning ==
I plan here!
Prompt: What if Clearsight had killed herself in the rockslide?
* No real impact on Pyrrhia, her "arc" kind of concluded at darkstalker and had no real impact asides from sealing him away.
* Obviously, the focus is Pantala. Without Clearsight:
** No hivewings
** No book of clearsight
** No war
** No (as of now) overmind resurrection
* Would the Silkwings still exist? Would the Beetlewings have diverged into silkwings regardless of Clearsight, or are they a derivative of natural processes? Diversion from the original does not necessarily mean the extermination of it. Reminds me of a theory that explains that if Hivewings and Silkwings both come from the same ancestor, why don't silkwings have any kind of venom at all, and the Hivewings lack silk entirely. The theory runs along the lines of the predecessor being naturally diverse, with some having silk and some not, some have venom and some don't. Those that don't, "grow" their wings out over time. Those that do have silk just less likely to have venom from the start. Swapping Silk for venom The tribe is essentially split into two large categories, ones with silk and do get full wings and those that don't. Clearsight and/or her offspring are more of the second variant, by either appearances or by genetic, and their genes spread more through the second variant as breeding between the groups becomes less and less common. 
* So let's run with that. A diverse tribe of Beetlewings with many little subgroups, like silkwings, hivewings(or whatever they are now) and a couple other subgroups. Maybe those that lack wings entirely or other variations based on other bugs. Armor shells, nocturnal variants, etc, etc. 
* ^Could be fueled by natural disaster or scarcity. There were quite a few events in Clearsight's book, after all. 
* As for the history: 
** Without Clearsight, there's no book of Clearsight. Without it, the Silkwing "Queen" would have never bowed to Wasp
** But Wasp and Monarch aren't here, are they? If the variations exist but aren't split enough to form separate tribes, are they still united under a singular ruler? Or is more of a Poisonwing-Sapwing situation where there's respective leaders of respective groups, but only one queen?
** Would war even be against the leafwings? Or different groups of clashing interests? If the Beetlewings are so varied in their appearances and abilities, each needing different needs, could the control & fulfillment of the ruling party's needs outrage other groups into rebellion? Would the leafwings siding with a particular group cause the ruling party to turn on them?
** Would this time around, instead of the overmind being used as a failed attempt to stop the hivewing queen, would the ruling beetle-dragon queen purposefully take it, trying to control as many rebels and groups as possible. Would it be more tactically spread, with individual squadrons of random dragons controlled by a leader instead of a unanimous rule under the queen?
* If there are many groups naturally diverging from the start, does war even happen at this time? Or is it a reoccurring thing, where factions of beetle-dragons fight over and over again, trying to integrate, consume, expand, and wipe each other out, like a feuding group of empires?
* So Blue. Where do we find our protagonist? Existing in an already conquered empire, or in one of his own? How does Cricket factor in?
* Maybe it's already been conquered, but Cricket helps Blue find his sister and escape the hive empire?
Ight. Planning complete. Plot drafting starts:
* Blue, Luna, Silverspot and Burnet are all hiding. Luna is debating about running out and charging the hivewings herself. Burnet tells her to calm down, and try to not draw attention to herself. Blue is terrified, hugging Silverspot. Silverspot mentions that most dragons get antsy close to their cocooning. Sounds of battle can be heard outside. Luna finally calms down, curling up in a corner and yawning. She's been scratching at her wrists for a while, blue notes, and feels as if his itch too. Blue wonders about what will become of him, if the hivewings find him. Hours pass, but Blue can't sleep, pondering the former. Luna eventually settles down and cocoons, and Blue finally falls asleep
* Blue is woken to yelling and jolting. He's being dragged away by Hivewings. SIlverspot is tightly hugging Burnet, who seems to be bleeding. Blue can't see Luna's cocoon anywhere, and he's easily overwhelmed by the action. Blue is chained up and thrown in a cart. In his panic, he manages to ask one of the guards what's going on, but they only grunt and mutter something. Blue spends a few miserable hours riding in the cart, seeing the bodies of multiple dead dragons that were killed in the fight. He's not sure whether he should be sad for their deaths, even though he knows them and couldn't know them. There's a handful of other silkwings in the cart as well, but none of them are really interested in talking. 
* They stop at a massive outpost, deep into the night. It borders a massive wall, one that looms over the dragons and makes Blue afraid. There's a long line of carts leading to the actual entrance of the wall, into the heart of the fortress. Here, he runs into Cricket, who gets really fascinated by the silkwing cart and asks Blue what he's doing in there. Blue comments that he's been taken prisoner, but he hopes to find his sister, who was in her cocoon. Cricket is intrigued by his story and wants to help him.
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