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!

out over them, rippling through the ambient

or this one, a friend of

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 boredom. Next to them a trio of mages

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

almost a zero percent chance that they don't know

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

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

reason, the Eldest gobbled down trouble like a Queen taking in Biomass. The end result

them?" Coolant offered. "I'll need to move a little closer, I

"I'll arrange an escort."

to escort the mage closer to the enemy in a

thousand may send the wrong

"What do you mean?"

she counted quickly, "eight golgari over there. If we walk closer with a thousand,

antennae. A thousand didn't feel like many to her. Then again,

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 very obviously stopped and

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

for a long moment before

to bring them here so that they may duel the High Blade

the Eldest? For what? Some imagined insult? She couldn't possibly comprehend the