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!

rippling through

one here, or this 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

the Eldest… Who else could they possibly want?" Coolant wondered with

zero percent chance that they don't

of the golgari wanted to kill another golgari for some reason, why not let them do it?

at play that we don't understand," Sloan sighed. "Anytime something weird happens, it's usually to do with

to that. It was true. For whatever reason, the Eldest gobbled down trouble like a Queen taking in Biomass. The end result was something good, but the appetite appeared to

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

"I'll arrange an escort."

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

you think a thousand may

"What do you mean?"

there. If we walk closer with a thousand, might they think they

with an antennae. A thousand didn't feel like many to her. Then again, she was an ant. "I'll

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

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

stone-people all communicated with each other for a long moment

We want you to bring them here so that they may duel the High Blade Balta. He wishes to expunge the shame the creature has

the way out here chasing the Eldest? For what? Some imagined insult? She