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!

rippling through the ambient mana

one here, or this one, a friend

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

Who else could they possibly want?" Coolant wondered with some

percent chance

golgari wanted to kill another golgari for some reason,

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

to that. It was true. For whatever reason, the Eldest gobbled down trouble like a Queen taking in Biomass. The end result was something

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

"I'll arrange an escort."

ants ready to escort the mage

you think a thousand may send the

"What do you mean?"

total of.." she counted quickly, "eight golgari over there. If we

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

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

started off formally, [I have come to clarify exactly

communicated with each other for a

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

aback by this. This guy came 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,