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!

again that strange, undirected mental communication washed out over them, rippling through the ambient mana in the air

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

armoured figure reclined in a chair next

could they possibly want?" Coolant

have no idea, but the Eldest isn't here. There is almost a zero percent chance that they don't know

some reason, why not let

don't understand," Sloan

For whatever reason, the Eldest gobbled down trouble like a Queen taking in Biomass.

reach out to them?" Coolant offered. "I'll need to move a little closer, I don't

"I'll arrange an escort."

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

thousand may send the

"What do you mean?"

there. If we walk closer with

with an antennae. A thousand didn't feel like many to her. Then again, she was an ant. "I'll send

at a moment's notice. Sloan had 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 event the others

she started off formally, [I

for a long

want you to bring them here so that they may duel the High Blade Balta. He wishes to expunge the shame the creature has

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. True to her