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

here, or this one, a friend of that

forced to kneel on the ground at sword point whilst an elaborately armoured figure reclined in a

have to mean the Eldest… Who else could

chance that they don't know that! Surely!" Sloan said. "… We have

one of the golgari wanted to kill another golgari for some reason, why not let them do it? One less for them to fight when they made a push for

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

true. For whatever reason, the Eldest gobbled down trouble like a Queen taking in Biomass. The end result was something good, but the appetite appeared to be

"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 in a matter of seconds.

think a thousand

"What do you mean?"

over there. If we

antennae. A thousand didn't

scouts, for detecting foul play, and soldiers, to hold the line in the event the others needed to retreat. Once they had covered half the ground toward the first gate, they very obviously stopped and parked themselves for a moment. Acting with

the Colony,] she started off formally, [I have come to clarify

other for a long moment before a reply

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

all the way out here chasing the Eldest? For what? Some imagined insult? She couldn't possibly comprehend the meaning behind such