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!]

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 Invidia and Al on the case, our grip on

damn worm 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 hook from Tiny and

believe he is travelling down a pre-dug tunnel, master.

he used to reach us in

believe it's

[Dammit!]

easy. Run! Like the wind, Anthony! A thousand thoughts

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

Do you

fast. I'm not able to

get too far ahead then we can follow the trail no matter where

away, but I can't seem to grab hold of his core despite the fact that I should be able to sense it at my level of mana

be all that surprising, considering he's a worm, but he's one slippery

I 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 was previously. The direction

up! He might be going to breach

Crinis

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

it takes far less time for the worm to wriggle his way up than it does for us, as we run and climb our way out of the tunnels our hold on

[Thissss way.]

[You're sure?]

[Alwaysssss sure!]

for

battling demon larvae, we continue to run as somewhere ahead

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

serves to cause anger to bubble up within me but under the effect of meditation I allow it to

is right here,] I taunt, [you sure you don't want to let her know why you betrayed her? Did you know she almost died because of you? Why don't you come on back and apologise? My mandibles

with her mind and I

[… sorry,] I mumble.