Chrysalis

[He's close! We need to get all minds on the job. Try and find his mana signature. It'll be hard, he's good at hiding, so we need to get on this now!]

[Anthony…] Sarah's mind hesitantly reaches out to mine.

[Later,] I tell her brusquely, [I can hear what you have to say later. The Colony won't be dissuaded on this, not after what he did.]

I switch my mind directly to my allies.

[Crinis, reach out through the shadows, cover as much ground as you can.]

I reach back and pat her with one antenna.

[This will be a huge strain on you, so be careful. It's important, but not more important than you are.]

[I understand, master.]

[Al, I need you to help track down this worm.]

[I do not understand. Confusion. What is a worm?]

[It's a type of creature that’s long and burrows through the ground. Just try and find the damn traitor, please?]

[I will try.]

As I've been talking all of my minds have already bent themselves to the task of tracing the mana that Jim wove with such cunning. I refuse to believe he's so good that he can hide all evidence of his weaving.

Wherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewhere?!?!

AHA! A sniff!

[This way!] I roar over the mind bridge to my team and we rush northwards. [Crinis! Let's go!]

into the darkness, her body totally hidden from sight, so I make sure to call to her before I dash forward like a terrier on the trail. He covered his tracks as carefully as only a true coward can, but he can't compete with my mind power! Once I put

as we rush through the tunnels, brushing past numerous demons who we simply knock to the side, unwilling to waste time

is travelling down a pre-dug tunnel, master. I

he used to reach us in the first place. Any chance

it's

[Dammit!]

him off that easy. Run! Like the wind, Anthony! A thousand thoughts try to intrude on my

myself deep into meditation, letting my emotions run cold. I can't afford to get distracted when the trail

Do you have

able to catch

too far ahead then

despite the fact that I should be able to sense it at my level

all that surprising, considering he's a worm, but he's

shout as I sense something change. I screech to a halt as I cast my senses about, trying to determine what has happened. My sense of Jim is fading, but not in the way it

going up! He might be going to breach the

Crinis asks,

I think he might be

his way up than it does for us, as we run and climb our way out of the tunnels our hold on the trail grows ever more faint. By the time we reach the plains I can barely sense him

[Thissss way.]

[You're sure?]

[Alwaysssss sure!]

for

the ground beneath our feet carpeted in battling demon larvae, we continue to run as

may not even reach him. [Didn't you have something to say?

anger to bubble up within me but under the effect of meditation I

her? Did you know she

Sarah growls at me with her mind and I turn my head a

[… sorry,] I mumble.