Time passed slowly for Amber and the others in the underground shelter as December rolled forward. From the seventeenth to the last day of the month, Amber and the Chimaeric Demons started exploring the network of tunnels and caves under their base.
As the shelter became safer and construction work inside the base decreased, more clones joined the search efforts, since fewer of them were needed to complete the structure.
Their numbers allowed them to venture deeper into the underground cave's heart, explore more tunnels, and kill more bugs.
The various groups of clones found and took care of many nests. Most of the times they were the same Amber and the others faced, but there were also other species more aggressive than those they found at the entrance of the tunnels' system, which seemed unrelated to the first they fought at the entrance.
