Huh. Nobody had been notifying of updates in this thread, so I hadn't caught up in a while.
Morriwolf, did you mean the work as a whole to date, or just the last couple of installments?
I can't figure out why they'd need to break into that line; they're not going through a cleft barely wide enough for one creature, there's plenty of room for the hungry party to fit by next to the slow party. But at least some of them seem to have names, which is a nice change.