[michime]

The mantis watched the womb birth the seeds from its mouth struggling to expel the large, heavy pod.  He covered the first pod the alien birthed then picked up the invader and moved them to another mound.  He dug another hole and this time he held the womb's head in the hole.  The seeds needed the warm, fertile earth and there was less chance of the pod of rolling down the mounds.

He traced one leg over the alien's front feeling a series of hard bulges from Khell's stomach to his neck.  He listened to the strange sounds the creature made as the seed rolled up and out the womb's mouth.  "You carry this entire forest in you.  One seed for every mound."