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!

again that strange, undirected mental communication washed out over them, rippling through

one, a friend

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. Next to them a trio of mages worked together,

to mean the Eldest… Who else could they possibly

chance that they don't know that! Surely!" Sloan said. "… We have to

another golgari for some reason, why not let

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

like a Queen taking in Biomass. The end result was something good, but the

them?" Coolant offered. "I'll need to move a

"I'll arrange an escort."

had a thousand ants ready to escort the mage closer to

a thousand

"What do you mean?"

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

thousand is too many?" Sloan rubbed the top of her head with an antennae. A thousand didn't feel like many

and soldiers, to hold the line in the

you on behalf of the Colony,] she started off formally, [I

for

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

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