It had been several months since they returned from the Amazon rainforest in Peru.
During that time, aside from the red and blue spiders seeming to enter some kind of silent phase and no longer clamoring all day to meet their destined people, Gwen Stacy had been busy as hell. That was also one reason Henry had not gone to bother the girl.
According to Skye, Gwen naturally went home at night and did not stay at school studying. But when the high school girl went to visit this college big sister, the scholarly atmosphere of her bedroom scared her so badly that she fled in terror.
The underachieving girl had not merely run away—she declared that hell was no worse than that.
So it was not that Henry did not want the Amazon red and blue spiders to give Gwen a bite. Both sides had simply been too busy, until today.
Perhaps they knew their time had come, because neither spider in the secret base's terrarium had been very settled. The spider brought back from the Amazon was smaller, with more extensive red markings, so it was named "Little Red."
The other spider was at least thirty years old and had more extensive blue markings, so it was called "Little Blue." But do not think this spider had become a spirit. Some giant spider species really could live for more than ten years, such as wolf spiders, sac spiders, and tarantulas.
Although Amazon spiders were not giant spider species, new arthropod discoveries were still being made even today. It was perfectly normal for there to be new species whose ecology humans did not understand.
Henry remembered chatting with the elder who had guided them through the Spider Tribe. While there was no rule saying one spider had to be