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

one here, or this one,

to kneel on the ground at sword point whilst an elaborately armoured figure reclined in a chair next to him, watching

to mean the Eldest… Who else could they

almost a zero percent chance that

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

Eldest is involved, there might be some element at play that we don't understand," Sloan sighed. "Anytime something weird happens, it's usually

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

you want me to reach out to them?" Coolant offered. "I'll need to move a little closer, I

"I'll arrange an escort."

the mage closer to the enemy in a matter of seconds.

think a thousand may send the wrong

"What do you mean?"

If we walk closer with a thousand, might they

Sloan rubbed the top of her head with an antennae. A thousand didn't feel like many to her. Then

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

stone-people all communicated with each other for

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

here chasing the Eldest? For what? Some imagined insult?