Whelm - Be'lakor

As the hunters surged within

The roof began to fall

Fractured chitin underfoot

Whilst ichor soaked the halls

Then gathering, the pack reformed

For once they’d all consumed

They flooded from the earth in which

The hive was now a tomb

A rushing mass of fur and claws

The host would move as one

Provided each could keep apace

Those creatures feared none

Each component of the whole

A spoke, for now, that linked

Dispensable—when it should break

The rest would let it sink

When river’s water blocked their path

They lingered over moss

A chain of stones bound shore to bank

And each would have to cross

They navigated snout to tail

The smallest one was knocked

As treacherous waters surged

It shattered on the rocks

One component of the whole

A spoke, that now, had snapped

Dispensable—it served no use

The others would adapt

Silently, it understood

And, broken beyond mend

It watched the other hunters leave

Then waited for the end