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

here, or this one, a

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 boredom. Next to them a trio

to mean the Eldest… Who else could

idea, but the Eldest isn't here. There is almost a zero percent chance that they don't know

reason, why not let them do

don't understand," Sloan sighed. "Anytime something weird happens, it's

gobbled down trouble like a Queen taking in Biomass. The end result was something good, but the

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

"I'll arrange an escort."

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

think a thousand may

"What do you mean?"

counted quickly, "eight golgari over there. If we walk closer with a thousand, might they think they are

thousand is too many?" Sloan rubbed the top of her head with an antennae. A thousand didn't feel like many to her. Then again,

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.

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

for a

High Blade Balta. He wishes to expunge the shame the creature has

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