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

reincarnated one here, or this one, a friend of

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

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

chance that they don't

some reason, why

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

the Eldest gobbled down trouble like a Queen taking in

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

"I'll arrange an escort."

away and had a thousand ants ready to escort the mage closer to the enemy in a matter of seconds.

a thousand

"What do you mean?"

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

too many?" Sloan rubbed the 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

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

she started off formally, [I

communicated with each other for a long

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

this. This guy came all the way out here chasing the Eldest? For what? Some imagined insult? She couldn't