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 air and into

the reincarnated one here, or this one, a friend of that

at sword point whilst an elaborately armoured figure reclined in a chair next to him, watching all

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

percent chance that they don't

some reason, why not let them do it? One less for them to fight when they made a

there might be some element at play that we don't understand," Sloan sighed. "Anytime something

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

need to move a little closer, I don't

"I'll arrange an escort."

thousand ants ready to escort the mage closer to the enemy in a matter

you think a thousand may send the wrong

"What do you mean?"

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

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

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 moment. Acting

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

other for a long moment

Blade Balta.

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