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!

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

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

gate, a procession of golgari stood with one of their own forced to kneel on the ground at sword point whilst an elaborately armoured figure reclined in a chair next to him, watching all that occurred with an expression of detached boredom.

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

here. There is almost a zero percent chance that they don't know that! Surely!" Sloan said. "… We have to talk

golgari wanted to kill another golgari for some reason, why not let them do

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

For whatever reason, the Eldest gobbled down trouble like a Queen taking in Biomass. The end result was something good, but the appetite appeared to

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

"I'll arrange an escort."

thousand ants ready to escort the mage

you think a thousand may send

"What do you mean?"

golgari over there. If we

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 send a

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 moment. Acting with great caution, Coolant wove together a mind bridge and extended it toward the trio of mages

of the Colony,] she started off formally, [I have

other for a long moment before a

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

the way out here chasing the Eldest? For what? Some imagined insult? She couldn't possibly comprehend the