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!

washed out over them, rippling through the ambient mana in

the reincarnated one here, or this one, a friend of that

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

else could they possibly want?" Coolant wondered with some

chance that they

another golgari for some reason, why not let them

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

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

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

"I'll arrange an escort."

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

think a thousand may send the wrong

"What do you mean?"

she counted quickly, "eight golgari over there. If

is too many?" Sloan rubbed the top of her head with an antennae. A thousand didn't feel like

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 ground toward the first gate,

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

all communicated with each other for a long moment before a

so that they may duel the High Blade Balta.

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