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!

communication washed out over them, rippling through the ambient mana in the air and into their

one, a friend of that creature,

in a chair next to him, watching all that occurred with

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

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

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

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

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

"I'll arrange an escort."

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

you think a thousand

"What do you mean?"

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

think a thousand is too many?" Sloan rubbed the top of her head with an antennae. A thousand didn't feel like many to her. Then again, she was an ant. "I'll

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

on behalf of the Colony,] she started off formally, [I have come to clarify exactly what it is

other for a long

so that they may duel the High Blade Balta. He wishes to expunge the

what? Some imagined insult? She couldn't possibly comprehend the meaning behind such actions, but she didn't let her confusion show.