chapter 2 - swarm

It has been long since that i have written to you my old friend. critical time has lapsed and hard to deal with events have taken place in the interim since last we interacted . the enemy is now very aware of me and i write this surrounded by the knowledge that puts me in grave danger. using an open source of communication risks my detection - however i have no other choice. i have had to through trial and error disguise my ability as it appears i am omitting signals that agitate the arachnids. i have gone on an extensive quest to find out if what i wrote you earlier had any merit. my travels have taken me to the ancient city of Constantinople, Timbuktu, the Egyptian pyramids, Inca ruins and a remote valley in the Gobi desert. i have spent time in libraries across the globe, unearthing books long since read, long since opened. my research on the Easter island extinction is critical to my hypothesis. a mini arachnid take over in a remote setting. my travels to this island has yielded the most obvious solution yet. i have extensively researched other arachnid uprisings through the ages of man and i am afraid that all i imagined is true - the gathering of this arachnid storm is well underway. the initial archadrones are most active within certain key cities and a gathering of these elements into a cohesive force is imminent. the systematic extermination of animals by the drones has been sped up. i have read in an ancient hieroglyphic manuscript that us animals can take heart that the insidious enemy within can be overcome - that the unlettered and ordinary amonst us can be enough to overcome the tide. take heart -i must go now - jack