Skitter up the stalk, anchor a thread, jump to the next stalk, anchor the thread, on and on until the framework is complete. Now to the edge, attach the silk there, and go around, round and round fixing silk to each anchor thread. Working from the edge to center, until the anchor threads are all connected by the sticky silk. This is the mantra that runs through his head as he creates his web. As it has for every web he has ever woven.
Now, he sits in the center of his web, watching the world go by. Every now and then, when his web shakes, he'll stick out a golden leg, grasp an anchor thread, and shake back. If he gets an answering shake, he'll skitter down the lines, grab the insect, roll it up in silk, bite it, then move back to his center post while waiting for his venom to digest the morsel. This, too, repeats in an endless cycle, but it is a spiders life.
