In the City of Spiders

2- Sin

Ah, spiders.

Such interesting animals.

Adorable little paws. Many eyes. Capable of intricate works of art.

The giant house spider can travel at 1.9 kilometers per hour.

And they're carnivorous. Well, most of them, there is one species that is mostly vegetarian.

Deadly.

Some of he male spiders just want to be eaten alive already. Ahh, wouldn't that be nice?

Spiders can work together and despite being nearsighted, they can see what we cannot.

The largest spider, (The Goliath Birdeater), can live for 15-25 years.

The scientific name of the Tarantula is "Theraphosidae".

There are around 900 breeds of tarantula, and some of them have a leg span of 30 centimeters.

Imagine waking up next to one... or being slowly devoured by one.

In Ancient Greek mythology, the "Queen" of spiders is a horribly disfigured monster that claimed to have lost a challenge to the great goddess Athena. This monster, or "Arachne" as she was called, had once been a boastful woman, who said her skills were greater than those of Athena. The goddess of wisdom did not take kindly to being belittled by her, so a challenge was announced to see who was the better weaver.

Of course, no one ever wins a challenge against Athena, and as punishment for being boastful, she was turned into the weaver, mother of spiders, Arachne.

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Meanwhile, the seven deadly sins of the city gathered around a billiard table somewhere towards the west side of Lewing.

"NO!" screamed Wrath at seemingly everyone.

"Oh, for the love of god, calm down!" said Pride, who was painting his nails a bright orange.

These weren't the famous seven sins that you would know, these are the criminal giants of Lewing.

Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath and Sloth.

Each corresponding to their most famous crime.

Spiders crawled around the room, hundreds of tarantulas.

Sloth wasn't actually in the room, he was sleeping somewhere much more comfortable, with a lot less spiders.

"WHAT IF HE GETS CAUGHT?!" Screamed Wrath back.

Drunk, Gluttony yelled back "WHY SHOULD WE CARE?!"

"Yo Glut, yeet me the case," Said Greed.

Gluttony tossed him a bottle of beer.

The sins continued to argue like children for a couple of minutes. If not for the fact that they owned the whole building, it would have been likely that someone would've called the police.

Lust jumped up.

He brushed the spiders off his pale pink suit, and said "My dear friends, please keep the noise down. My lovely Lavender is waiting patiently for me upstairs." He turned up his nose with a smirk and said in a low voice, " Now, if you'll excuse me, I have somewhere to be."

He left the room.

For a handful of minutes, nothing but the hissing and clicking of arachnids cloud be heard, until a deathly, hoarse scream came from upstairs.

Lust wasn't wearing a pink suit when he came limping down those stairs, instead he had a red-painted blouse and crinkled black formal pants. His eyes shone with a merciless crime.

"Envy, she's all yours. But do be careful, dead women break easily."