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!

out over them, rippling through the ambient mana in the

this one, a friend of that

whilst an elaborately armoured figure reclined in a chair next to him, watching all that occurred with an expression of detached boredom. Next to them a trio of

could they possibly want?" Coolant wondered with

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

one of the golgari wanted to kill another golgari for some reason, why not let them do it? One less for

we don't understand," Sloan sighed. "Anytime something weird

only nod to that. It was true. For whatever reason, the Eldest gobbled down trouble like a

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

"I'll arrange an escort."

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

a thousand may send the wrong

"What do you mean?"

over there. If we

is too many?" Sloan rubbed the top of her head with an antennae. A

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

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

communicated with each other for

Blade Balta.

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 name,