Chrysalis

Chapter 1183

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.

on the front line as the soldiers, scouts, mages and healers ahead of

could go poorly.

you’ll lead

“O-of course!”

does that mean? Lead the way literally, as in, move forward at the head of the troops? Or do we start with an acid barrage? She talked about acid, I’m sure of it…. Or

when nobody corrects me I take a few more. The troops behind me begin to shuffle

creep forward a bit more. They creep along

moving too slowly, or is it

the ants fighting ahead of me turn and

NOW WHAT?

Do I strike?

ready to unleash a powerful chomp, but I hesitate. Would that ruin the plan? I don’t want to unravel the strategy! The whole point of

slow the enemy down for the rest of the ants

if they’re counting on me not doing that? DAMMIT! This is giving me a headache. The monsters are almost on top of me now… what am

tuck my legs under my body, bury my head in the rock and accept my fate. If I can’t decide

down on me ceaselessly. Protected by

that I won’t get instantly annihilated at least. I can feel the ants engaging the enemy around me, acid fills the air, a non-trivial amount of it landing on me,

I’d love to meet them.

wrong continues to eat away at me, and

OOF!

elemental just clobbered me with one of its boulders, hard enough to create some cracking in my shell. Lousy sentient collection of

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