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!

undirected mental communication washed out over them, rippling through the ambient mana in the air and

or this one, a friend of that

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 sending

could they possibly want?" Coolant wondered

but the Eldest isn't here. There is almost a zero percent chance that they don't know that! Surely!" Sloan said. "… We have to talk to

reason, why not let them do it? One less for

some element at play that we don't understand," Sloan sighed. "Anytime

was true. For whatever reason, the Eldest gobbled down trouble like a

out to them?" Coolant offered. "I'll need to move

"I'll arrange an escort."

escort the mage closer to

a thousand may send the wrong

"What do you mean?"

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

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

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 retreat. Once they had covered half the

she started off formally, [I have come to clarify exactly what it is that

for a

so that they may duel the High Blade Balta. He

by this. This guy came all the way out here chasing the Eldest? For what? Some imagined insult? She couldn't possibly comprehend the meaning behind such actions, but she didn't let her confusion show.