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!

them, rippling through

one, a

inside the first gate, a procession of golgari stood with one of their own forced to kneel on the 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

Who else could they possibly want?" Coolant wondered with

a zero percent chance that they don't know that! Surely!" Sloan said. "…

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

involved, there might be some element at play that we don't

trouble like a Queen taking in Biomass. The end result was something good, but the appetite appeared to be

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

"I'll arrange an escort."

ready to escort the mage closer to the enemy in a matter

think a thousand may send

"What do you mean?"

there. If we walk

many?" Sloan rubbed the top of her head with an antennae. A thousand didn't feel like

ants cautiously advanced toward the golgari delegation, ready to flee at a moment's notice. Sloan had considered things carefully and the delegation contained a healthy mix of mages, for raising shields, scouts, for detecting foul play, and soldiers, to hold the line in the event the others needed to retreat. Once

you on behalf of the Colony,] she started off formally, [I

communicated with each other for

High Blade Balta. He wishes to expunge the shame the creature has cast upon his house with his

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