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!]

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 Invidia

when was that 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

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

to reach us in the first place. Any chance

it's

[Dammit!]

wind, Anthony! A thousand thoughts try to intrude on my mind as we run. I spent time

my emotions run cold. I can't afford to get distracted when the trail is this faint and hard to

you

I'm not able to catch up

push yourself too hard. As long as he doesn't get too far ahead then we can follow the trail no matter where it

grab hold of his 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

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

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

might be going to

Crinis

be leaving the tunnels! Quick! We need

way out of the tunnels our hold on the trail grows

[Thissss way.]

[You're sure?]

[Alwaysssss sure!]

for me,

demon larvae, we continue to run as somewhere

which may or may not even reach

to bubble up within me but under the effect of meditation I allow it to flow

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

mind and I turn my head a

[… sorry,] I mumble.