They hadn't always been trapped in the caves below Bishops Blickmore, they used to leave every autumn to swarm the country until they were sealed in for good. Unfortunately time and a few purposeful fires erased all mentions of the caves, the creatures they contained and the destruction they'd cause if they were ever set loose again.
If the people of that time had known that all it would take to set them free again was several decades of heavy traffic and a mild earthquake then they might have done more than just collapse the entrance and heave a few larger boulders in front for good measure.
The first ones to discover the newly opened cave were devoured in an instant, picked clean to the bones which were brought into the nests so the larvae could suck out the marrow. They would never be found among the hundreds of others that decorated the caverns by the time the main host was destroyed.
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