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!

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

one,

ground at sword point whilst an elaborately 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

else could they possibly want?" Coolant wondered

Eldest isn't here. There is almost a zero percent chance that they don't know that! Surely!" Sloan said.

wanted to kill another golgari for some reason, why not let them do it? One less

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

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

to them?" Coolant offered. "I'll need to move

"I'll arrange an escort."

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

think a thousand may

"What do you mean?"

there. If we walk closer with a thousand, might they think

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

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 great caution, Coolant wove together a mind bridge and extended it toward the trio of mages

Colony,] she started off formally, [I have come to clarify exactly what it is that you

for a

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

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 she didn't let her confusion show. True to her