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!]

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 and Al on the case,

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

believe he is travelling down a pre-dug tunnel,

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

believe 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

letting my emotions run cold. I can't afford to get

you have

too fast. I'm not able to catch up

too hard. As long as he doesn't get too far ahead then we can follow the

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

surprising, considering he's

determine what has happened. My

up! He might be

surface?] Crinis asks,

he might be leaving the tunnels! Quick! We need

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 at all, only Invidia and Al are

[Thissss way.]

[You're sure?]

[Alwaysssss sure!]

enough for

the plains now, the ground beneath our feet carpeted in battling demon larvae, we continue to run as somewhere ahead of

wave 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

within me but under the effect of meditation

you

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

[… sorry,] I mumble.