"We still haven't been given an avenue to intervene," the white-haired one said reluctantly.
"We're almost stretching things as it is just coming here," the dark-haired one, more a child than a woman, said.
The third woman, younger than the white-haired one, but older than the raven-haired girl, sighed and looked a short distance away to a scruffy looking young man leaning against a post near their little corner.
"There is a loop-hole," she said, "but it will take a lot of work."
"What are you thinking, Bell?" the white-haired one said. "Moving them to America, or something?"
"We can't move them anywhere on this Earth without causing a major impact on the places we send them, Urd," Bell said softly. "And it will be hard to hide how the feat was done."
"But if we do nothing, they're going to kill them all," the youngest said, seeming to forget her earlier caution. "It's a whole new species."
"Regardless of the results here, Skuld," Urd said. "There are already spiders in America and other places. The species will survive. It will just be slowed down."
"Which is why we aren't going to move them to anywhere on Earth," Belldandy said.
"That loop hole," Urd said, grunting. "That IS a lot of work."
"Wh...where are we sending them?" Skuld asked.
"There are any of a number of worlds that have much more empty space," Urd said. "Shall we agree on a place before we start the spells?"
Belldandy nodded.
****
As the spiders planned for desperate action, and the JSDF were preparing their own decision, a thin mist crawled in from the sea, called by the quiet chants, seemingly prayers of a trio of gaijin women.
No one took much note of them even as they remained in their intensely concentrated poses for minutes stretching into hours, and the mist spread quietly throughout the entire place. Where it passed and filled the air, men, women, children, spiders and humans slept where they stood or sat.
Nothing kept the mist at bay, it passed through high tech airlocks and walls as if they weren't there, and few noticed it before they fell asleep.
Then came the quiet, gradual exodus as figures quietly flashed out of existence from this world, to appear in another. Forms rose up out of the Earth and took the shapes of bodies and body-bags. Then the three women winked silently out of view and the mist retreated letting the military and their staff awaken with the memories of the tragedy they had just inflicted upon numerous innocent victims.
Meanwhile, the spiders found themselves awakening in...
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