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

or this one,

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

Eldest… Who else could

percent chance that they don't

if one of the golgari wanted to kill another golgari for some reason, why not let them do it? One less for them to fight when they made a push for the

might be some element at play that we don't understand,"

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

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

"I'll arrange an escort."

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

a thousand

"What do you mean?"

If we walk closer with a

of her head with an antennae. A thousand didn't

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

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

for a long moment

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

the Eldest? For what? Some imagined insult? She couldn't possibly comprehend the meaning behind such actions, but she