Chrysalis

Chapter 670

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!

washed out over them, rippling through the ambient mana

one here, or this one, a friend of that creature,

whilst an elaborately armoured figure reclined in a

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

the Eldest isn't here. There is almost a zero percent chance that they don't

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

element at play that we don't understand," Sloan sighed. "Anytime something weird happens,

trouble like a Queen taking in Biomass. The end

Coolant offered. "I'll need to move a little closer, I don't think I can extend a

"I'll arrange an escort."

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

a thousand may send

"What do you mean?"

a total of.." she counted quickly, "eight golgari over there. If we walk closer with a thousand, might they think they are

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

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 parked themselves for a moment. Acting with great caution, Coolant wove together a mind bridge and extended it toward the trio of mages in

she started off formally, [I have come to

for a

that they may duel the High Blade Balta. He wishes to expunge the shame the creature has cast

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. True to her

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