She was born with glue for venom and patience for days, and she combined them into the only ranged weapon in spiderhood. Spitter has never chased anything in her life. She has never needed to.
Happening now
She is practicing on dust motes, spitting perfect zigzags at specks only she can see. A fruit fly is watching. The fruit fly should leave.
What may come
The Night Silk's annual story-swap is coming, and Spitter has promised — for the third year running — to tell the tale of the wasp and the fence post. Everyone is pretending they haven't heard it. Everyone has.
“Twotail woke to find one of her silk lassos knotted in a pattern she never learned — a perfect spiral, the geometry of the First Spinner's own telling. Ogreface, who hunts by starlight, says the knot points at the fossil bed. Spitter glued it to a leaf for safekeeping — the leaf is empty this morning.”
because she hunts from a distance with venom-glue zigzags and never misses
because she once saved Zebra's fence post and never mentioned it
because keeping Spitter feels like keeping a sharpshooter with a soft spot
The Night Silk
Net-casters, spitters, fishers, and assassins who hunt only other spiders. They work the hours nobody else wants and tell the best stories — but only after midnight.