What to do? Do I tell them I can’t remember the plan? Would that impact my dignity as the Eldest? Maybe I’ll just play along and hope for the best. What’s the worst that could go wrong?
“Do we all understand?”
“Of course.”
“No problem.”
“Simple.”
….
“It’s straightforward, I like it,” I declare with every scrap of confidence I can muster. “I’ll leave it to you to coordinate with the generals at the front.”
“I understand.”
Solant is all business, solemn and serious as she goes about plying her particular trade. When we arrive, she goes straight to the generals and begins an in-depth conversation about what she wants to do that I immediately lose track of, but they seem to follow okay.
Following that, she moves around the resting troops, ensuring they understand what to do, drawing little diagrams and even running a few drills until she’s happy that they’ll move the way she wants them to.
The entire time, all I hear in my mind is static. This is a problem.
line as the soldiers, scouts, mages and healers ahead of me prepare to fall back, I still have absolutely no idea
go
lead
“O-of course!”
we start with an acid barrage?
nobody corrects me I take a few
bit more. They
so far. But now I’m worried that I’m moving too
the ants fighting ahead of me turn and
NOW WHAT?
Do I strike?
powerful chomp, but I hesitate. Would that ruin the plan? I don’t want to unravel the strategy! The whole
slow the enemy
that? DAMMIT! This is giving me a headache. The monsters are almost on
my head in the rock and accept my fate. If I can’t decide what I should do, then I shall do nothing!
Protected by my absurdly tough, compressed diamond carapace, reinforced by the plating beneath and constantly regenerating, I take very little
more calm knowing that I won’t get instantly annihilated at least. I can feel the ants engaging the enemy around
enough to eat through my carapace, I’d love to meet them. In fact, it’s possible a nice acid wash will give my exterior an even
and every
OOF!
an earth elemental just clobbered me with one of its boulders, hard enough to create some
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