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.
time. Standing on the front line as the soldiers, scouts, mages and
could go poorly. My
lead the way,”
“O-of course!”
the head of the troops? Or do we start with an acid barrage? She talked about acid, I’m sure of it…. Or magic? Was
nobody corrects me I take a few more.
creep forward a bit more. They creep along behind
But now I’m worried that I’m moving too slowly, or is it too quickly? Do I
forward until the ants fighting ahead of me turn and retreat, rushing past
NOW WHAT?
Do I strike?
want to unravel the strategy! The
I won’t bite. Maybe I should unleash some gravity magic, slow the enemy down for the rest of the ants to deal
doing that? DAMMIT! This is giving me a headache. The monsters are almost on top of me now… what am
body, bury my head in the rock and accept my fate. If I can’t decide what I should do, then I shall do nothing!
Claws scratch, teeth scrape, blows rain down on me ceaselessly. Protected by my absurdly
can feel the ants engaging the
has acid tough 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
something wrong continues to eat away at me, and
OOF!
just collapsed on me. What the heck? Judging by the mana I can feel, an earth elemental just clobbered me with one of
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