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!]

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

so nimble?!] I rant as we rush through the tunnels, brushing past numerous demons who we simply knock to the side, unwilling to waste time fighting them. A quick right

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

in the first place. Any chance we can use

it's collapsing

[Dammit!]

betrayal and running away! But we have the scent and I sure as hell am not going to let him off that easy. Run! Like the wind, Anthony! A thousand thoughts try to intrude on my mind as we run. I spent time with Jim. He helped me escape from the golgari as well. He's been Sarah's friend for decades. But none of these things matter, they count

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

you

I'm not able to

push yourself too hard. As long as he doesn't get too far ahead then

core despite the fact that I should be able to sense it at my level of mana sight. I have a dozen minds out sweeping ahead, hunting for every little skerrick of energy that leaks beyond the fleeing coward's control and it's barely

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

I cast my senses about, trying to determine what has happened. My sense of Jim is fading, but not in

up! He might be

surface?] Crinis asks,

I think he might be leaving the tunnels! Quick! We need to

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

[Thissss way.]

[You're sure?]

[Alwaysssss sure!]

for me, let's

demon larvae, we continue to run as somewhere ahead of us, just below the

or may not even reach him. [Didn't you have something to say? Come back! Or are

serves to cause anger to bubble up within me

Did you know she almost died because

mind and I

[… sorry,] I mumble.