Myrm's Antobiography - Chapter 2

Chapter 2 - Flight of the Ants

Hello again, I'm Myrm, queen of my colony, and just one of millions of other queens out there that flew the nest recently.
I remember the day me and my brothers and sisters flew. It was full of excitement, and we just had a feeling that that day would be the one. There had been other days that were similar, and we had witnessed other nests letting their queens and kings fly, but we weren't able to. Our mother and queen of the colony wouldn't allow us to.
Many of us had been gathering up at the entrances to the nest. These had been widened especially in preparation for the flights, lets face it, we are bigger than the workers, and we don't normally come up here. There were hundreds of workers busying themselves around us, final grooming and feeding, ensuring that we were all as ready as we could be. In fact, the rest of the nest was manned by a skeleton crew of workers.
Now, you may think that with all the other males around, there would be a little bit of flirtation going on. But no! Not one of our queens including myself was ever interested in the males of our nest, that interest was reserved for others, and others only.
At last, the order came, and in our droves we left the nest and began looking around for somewhere tall to lift up from. It was a fine site indeed. The ground was a mass of queens, males and workers running hither and dither. Around me I saw other queens and males taking off into the air. Spreading their wings and onto the breeze they left in great swarms. It was then that the realisation of the outside world first dawned on me. Out of no where a huge flying creature swooped and caught one of the other queens in its strangely shaped jaw. Before I could blink (not that I do) the creature had turned and swooped on another of my sisters. This is a dangerous place I thought. I knew what must be done. I lifted my wings and...flap! My muscles worked and I was finally on the breeze lifting higher and higher into the sky.
After a small time I saw activity in the sky, it was another nests siblings flying into the sky. I was not quite sure what was supposed to happen when suddenly instinct kicked in. I flew towards the other swarm, and within moments a hansom male from this nest grasped onto me. He coupled with me there and then. I descended towards the ground, something shining down there caught my eyes and I had ot fly towards it.
On landing the hansom male decoupled, and walked off without a word. I was a little bewildered, was this what it had been like for my mother? Just as I was about to make my way towards the soil I could see in the distance, another male clasped onto me. Again we coupled. This happened another couple of times before I finally made it towards the soil I could see.
Something inside me was telling me to find somewhere suitable as quickly as possible to start digging my new home. It was instinct again of course. Built into me and my kind over millions of years. I soon found somewhere suitable, and it was at this point that I unhooked my wings from their muscles. I didn't want to get rid off them, they were beautiful and they had given me freedom, but now, if I wanted to dig, and dig quickly I had to rid myself of them. I had soon dug out a small hole which then gave me enough room to turn around in the hole, and also enabled me to fill in the hole behind me until I was enclosed fully within. What I did next, is a story for another day!