WILL

Ants.
They must have a pretty good life, thought Will, prodding the ground with a stick. Free to do whatever they want, no time limit, a big family... everything Will wanted as a child.
It was the night before Will was due to see Halt again after two long years. As well as Alyss, he added. He didn't know why he was so nervous, it was just a visit, not a battle.
Will's thoughts started spinning inside his head, and he stared longingly down at the anthill again.
Yes, he thought. Ants have it a lot easier than we do.

HALT

Halt stared down at the ants scattering after he crushed the anthill.
Ants are weak, he concluded. Anything sends them into a full panic, and they need hundreds of ants to do one job: collect food. They built confusing underground passageways, instead of a large chamber or straight passageways. They had frail bodies and stuck out on the floor of his cottage like a horse on a boat.
Yes, he concluded. Ants are a lot weaker than us.

ALYSS

Alyss watched the trail of ants walk across the windowsill of her house.
They must have a pretty terrible life, she reflected. Stuck in slavery all your life, either getting food or digging tunnels, and if you died, there were hundreds to replace you.
Nobody cared if you died, and there would be constant competition between who gets to bring in the food, and ant fights could end in an ant's death.
Once you got the food, you would need to get into the hole in the top of the anthill, which always seems to be filled with ants coming in and going out.
I guess we're pretty lucky compared to ants... Alyss thought.

HORACE

Ants are really efficient, Horace decided.
If you fill in their anthills, they remake it, mostly by the next day.
He missed the days when he had no work to attend to, and was free to train as much as he wanted.
The paperwork was one aspect the BattleMaster didn't exaggerate. There were piles and piles, and it took forever to do it.
Ants could work quickly and efficiently, never stopping to mope about the entrance collapsing.
They simply rebuild.
Ants are a lot more resilient than we.

Most of this is an exaggeration of my personal opinion. What do you think of ants