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Title: On the Predator’s Side (m/m, G, snake familiar)
My Master list for Drabblerotic 2016. A to Z Challenge 2016
Author: charisstoma
Word count: 100

“Yeah, that’s it. Come on you can get through. Go get ‘em!”

Andy looked over at Simon, “What are you watching?”

Simon didn’t look up, “you wouldn’t like it. You’d be routing for the baby.”

“BABY?”

“See. Told you.” Simon’s attention was fixed on the monitor screen.

“What ... BABY?”

“It’d probably be a moth if the spider doesn’t get it.”

Leaning over Simon’s shoulder, Andy watched the spider searching for a way through the caterpillar’s webbing. “It’s acting like a fence.”

“Come on bite through it.”

“We aren’t having a spider for a pet.”

“We do already.”

“WHERE?”

“Not telling.”

caption reads:
Sometimes food is really, really close...
...but sometimes it is very hard to grab it ;)