Most monsters wonder why spider monsters don't like to give gifts. Well, there's a logical explanation for that: monsters are greedy. We spiders are well known in the Underground for being the wealthiest family of monsters, so it's no wonder other species try to pull any kind of scheme to get some of our hard-earned Gold.

My name is Weaver. I was a rather poor seamstress and baker back in my teenage years. Now I know I just said that spiders are wealthy, but not all of them are. Only the ones who weren't, well, left behind. I was born on the surface, and I was about six years old when the monsters lost to the humans and were forced into the Underground. Through the chaos of fleeing monsters I lost my parents and I never found them since. Thankfully I was raised by a large family of common house spiders who had made their homes under the surface. They accepted me as one of their own since I was a monster with the characteristics of a spider. So now you can see why I didn't inherit the wealth my parents had bestowed upon by their parents, and so on.

It's always the same thing: some member of the spider family gets into a life-threatening crisis that's either been set up by other monsters or were just unfortunate coincidences, monsters save them, and they demand a reward for saving their life. And the demands are high. Prices can range from several hundreds to a couple thousands in Gold. Sure, we may have money left over to spare, but that doesn't mean we like being cheated by freeloaders who use saving a monster's life as an excuse to get paid high amounts of money. It's especially nasty if they secretly get spiders into such incidents in the first place. It's disgusting.

Well... No. I can't say it always happens. There are the rare diamonds in the rough who will save spiders just to help another monster out, who won't ask for a reward, and who will even offer to give to them rather than take.

My best friend is one of those diamonds.