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

the ground at sword point whilst an elaborately armoured figure reclined in

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

There is almost a zero percent chance that they

the golgari wanted to kill another golgari for some reason, why not let them do it? One less for them to fight when they made a push for the

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

whatever reason, the Eldest gobbled down trouble like a Queen

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

"I'll arrange an escort."

escort the mage closer to the enemy in a matter of seconds. Coolant had

thousand may

"What do you mean?"

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

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

procession of a hundred and one ants cautiously advanced toward the golgari delegation, ready to flee 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 needed to retreat. Once they had covered half the ground toward the first gate, they very obviously stopped and parked themselves for a

started off formally, [I have come

other for a long moment before a

High Blade Balta. He wishes to expunge the shame the creature has cast upon his house

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