Chrysalis

Where is it coming from? It’s hard to tell. I dive deep into the Vestibule, following that single thread of Will, trying to trace it back to the source. The ant is in pain, wanting to be saved. Wanting me to save them.

Just what could be happening?! What is going on?!

[You have to be calm, Anthony! I don’t understand, what is the matter?] Eran tries to calm me.

[We have left an ant behind and they are being hurt! I will not wait!]

The moment my gravity well is ready, I cast it and lift myself off the ship. It takes a little while, but I begin to rise rapidly. As I desperately try to determine where my missing sibling might be found, I snap out another mind bridge to Tungstant.

[One of us has been left behind in the city and they are under attack! Organise a quick headcount so we can find out who’s missing!]

[What?!] she gasps. [I’ll do it immediately!]

Come onnnnnnn. I know you’re in there somewhere. But where?!

I rise up, the Silver City gleaming before me, stretching so far, and climbing so high. Above that rests the Golden City, a hazy cloud far above me. Dammit! I have to be able to squeeze more out of the Vestibule! Where the heck are they?!

I grab hold of that wavering thread and tug on it, trying to trace it to its source. It’s thin, far away. How did they move her so far away from the rest of us so quickly? A gate?

The

up into the air.

the brathians can’t help me right now, then they’re pretty much

resist. I seriously didn’t think he’d try and take one

get a second chance…. If I don’t get my sibling back, then there is going

think like that. I will get her back, and

from Royal Road, this story should

under control for the time being. Who knows what I might need to get

draw ever closer. It’s like a vision of heaven, but in this moment, I couldn’t care

I’m coming, dammit!

light flashes incredibly bright, momentarily blinding me, but I don’t stop moving. Well, I don’t stop moving until I run into

and rip into the wall with my mandibles and minds. In moments,

of Mages using some sort of teleport spell, like Brilliant.

allow one of them to

are you doing up

where I am, stuck in a box of

the heck are you doing up here? Now that the trade mission is over and your fleet has departed, you no longer

shortly. [Now let me loose so I can retrieve them. You