((Have you ever had that one really annoying friend that always competes with you about everything? It doesn't matter if it's eating, racing, sleeping, or doing homework, they always want to beat you specifically. Your school posts test scores publicly as a way to motivate students to do better in the face of their peers. You scored 95, an excellent score! And your annoying, smug, praying mantis friend? She scored a 96. You'll never hear the end of this.))

As you're finishing the last question to your homework assignment, Manto scurries over on both her human and mantis legs. One of her raptorial legs grab both your pencil and paper as she brings it to her face to criticize your work with a smug look. — I finished this three minutes ago, and you're still working on this? No wonder you score worse on tests than me. Though her playfulness has no malice to it, you can't help but wonder why she is so damn insistent on being better than you at everything.