The dead ants do not seem to show happiness or sadness over their own deaths. He then walks around certain paths and finds two dead ants in a hollow. The Wart then hears higher-ranking ants announcing the directions of where the numbered ants must go based on age. The Wart likes these repeating sounds at first, but after an hour, the sounds begin to make him feel sick inside. The broadcast seems to repeat a rhythm over and over, mainly with the sounds June, Mammy, Ever, Blue, and Love. He starts to wave his antennae and was able to hear a thing like a wireless broadcast. The Wart reads this notice and does not like it, and then he starts to shrink down to the size of an ant. There were two tunnels that had a notice saying “EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY”. He then notices himself in a place seemingly filled with boulders, much like a fortress. Merlyn then tells the Wart to take a part of the floor and make a bridge by placing the part between the two nests of ants. He says that this lesson is far too soon to occur in the Wart’s education, but he decides he will do it since the Wart must learn it at some point. Merlyn tells him that the ants are dangerous and belligerent. The Wart then asks Merlyn if he could turn him into an ant, to which he replies that it would be dangerous at this point.
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