Gregor learns more about the Prophecy of Gray, which told of his arrival. Gregor quickly dislikes Henry and Luxa, who appear unfriendly and hostile to their arrival. There, Gregor meets Luxa, who is slated to become Regalia’s queen when she comes of age, and her cousins, Henry and Nerissa. Convinced that Gregor is the human spoken of in a prophecy, the cockroaches take the children into the human city of Regalia. When they land in the Underland, a group of huge cockroaches approaches the children. Gregor learns that the vent in his laundry room is one of the only surviving tunnels to the Underland. The colony originated when an immigrant Stonemason from England, who was anticipating an apocalypse on the surface world and led his devout followers underground. This forgotten world is home to societies of inordinately large spiders, rats, bats, and cockroaches, as well as a number of humans, who discovered the land in the 1600s and founded a colony. He falls a long distance, landing in an underground world called the Underland. Gregor rushes to save her, squeezing through the vent. Boots, only two years old, accidentally falls through an open grate in the floor of the laundry room. Gregor, age 11, is helping Boots do laundry. The novel begins at Gregor and Boots’ apartment in New York City. Gregor and Boots join Luxa, her cousin, Henry, and a cast of friendly vermin to fulfill the prophecy. Gregor meets the queen of the “Underland” human faction, Luxa, and gets roped into a prophecy which holds that two “Overlanders,” or humans from Gregor’s world, will team up with 10 “Underlanders” to save Gregor’s father from giant rats.
There, the vermin of the human world grow as big and as sentient as humans.
The fantasy novel follows young protagonist, Gregor, who travels with his little sister, Boots, to a subterranean society.
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