Chrysalis

Coolant looked out from her perch next to the upper sally port of the great gate and felt nothing but confusion.

"Do you want to go tell him, or should I?" she said to Sloan who was clinging to the wall next to her.

The general shook her head, bewildered.

"I mean. They have to know, right? There's no chance that they don't know."

"I assume they know. I mean, what are the odds the two forces aren't communicating to this extent?"

"Almost none, surely. Such a lack of organisation in our foes would throw our plans way out."

"Hasn't this thrown them way out anyway?"

Sloan hesitated.

"That's… true."

The two of them looked out in silence for a few more moments at the totally unexpected scene before them.

"What do you think we should do?" Coolant asked, her scent as calm and unruffled as it always was.

"I don't know!" Sloan fretted. Why would these idiots perform this sort of moronic action now of all times? It didn't make any sense!

that strange, undirected mental communication washed out over them, rippling through the ambient mana in the air and

one here, or this one, a friend of that creature,

armoured figure reclined in a chair next to him, watching all that occurred with an expression of detached boredom. Next to them a trio of mages worked together, supposedly sending out the mind

to mean the Eldest… Who else could they possibly want?" Coolant

here. There is almost a zero percent chance that

In her opinion, if one of the golgari wanted to kill another golgari for some reason, why

the Eldest is involved, there might be some element at play that we don't understand," Sloan

could only nod to that. It was true. For whatever reason, the Eldest gobbled down trouble like a Queen taking in Biomass. The end result was something

them?" Coolant offered. "I'll need to move a little closer, I don't think I can extend a mind bridge

"I'll arrange an escort."

and had a thousand ants ready to escort the mage closer to the enemy

thousand

"What do you mean?"

of.." she counted quickly, "eight golgari over there. If

head with an antennae. A thousand didn't feel like many to her. Then again, she was an ant. "I'll send

soldiers, to hold the line in the event the others needed to

greet you on behalf of the Colony,] she started off formally, [I have come to clarify exactly what it is that

each other for a

We want you to bring them here so that they may duel the High Blade Balta. He wishes to expunge the

rather taken aback by this. This guy came all the way out here chasing the Eldest? For what? Some imagined insult? She couldn't possibly comprehend the meaning behind such actions, but