Antecedent 10
chitin moved to stand in front of the elements.
Antecedent 11
"you must promise me something, chitin." "anything," chitin said immediately, bowing her head.
Antecedent 9
I'll rewrite our history," chitin said with a low, mirthful laugh. celestia shook her head, sighing and turning away. "very well." "you will come quietly?" chitin asked.
Born To Rule
Tapping on the chitin felt like if a human were to tap themselves on the back of a fingernail- it could still plainly be felt, but the sensation was not in the chitin itself.
Don't Bug Me
The end of her tailbone opened up to allow the nerves to continue onward, but bugs have exoskeletons, so her actual spine wasn't needed. the chitin on her legs- and soon after her arms- started to turn color from a fleshy peach to a metallic vermillion.
No Human's Sky
His endoskeleton was dissolving to give him an exoskeleton! where his joints were; breaks in the forming exoskeleton formed to divide it into plates, so he could still move around in spite of how hard his flesh was becoming.
Recapitulation, Part 3
You may remember our talk about chitin synthesis and porous excretion. the electrospinning techniques i've learned allowed me to customize the way the nanofibers react to incoming chitin when you generate your exoskeleton.
Sweet Ass
Her arms have chitin encasing them to the shoulders but her palms are bare flesh still as well as some narrow gaps between chitin plates.
Vanguard
Finding no skull, it began to pull calcium mass from the chitin of h'kdi's exoskeleton, while simultaneously sculpting its flesh to a more suitable configuration.
A New Hive
"no it's not," he says as his blue chitin begins to grow lighter again.
G'lek's Encyclopedia: The Aneen
Like the arms, these fingers are long, slender, and covered in hard chitin (except at the joints, which are covered in yellow fur).
Break Out In Hives (Remastered)
Though hard- as it is meant to be the skeleton of an insect- chitin is not so hard that it is brittle. it sort of feels like a super dense fingernail- tapping on it; she can fully feel everything through the chitin carapace.