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

the reincarnated one here, or this one,

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

Who else could they possibly want?"

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

kill another golgari for some reason,

is involved, there might be some element at play that we don't understand," Sloan sighed. "Anytime something weird happens, it's usually to

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

to move a little closer, I don't think I can extend a mind bridge that

"I'll arrange an escort."

ready to escort the mage closer

thousand may send

"What do you mean?"

quickly, "eight golgari over there. If we walk closer with

a 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, she was an ant. "I'll send a

things carefully and the delegation contained a healthy mix of mages, for raising shields, scouts, for detecting foul play, and soldiers, to hold the

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

communicated with each other for a

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

imagined insult? She couldn't possibly comprehend the meaning behind such actions, but she didn't let her confusion