Twin Souls of Destiny
Bray Primus burned.From the armaglass viewport on the battlebarge Kyd’s Revenge, Chief Librarian and Master of Philosophy, Thomus More watched as the battle for the system came to its end.…
Water
Utrechz picked his steps with precision, each placement deliberate among the shattered bones of the mon-keigh settlement. Plasteel and ceramite lay peeled open like carrion. The air still tasted of…
Changed Ways
So, he’s the one. The catalyst of change our farseers had foreseen.Warlock L’Adriath Eli’amaur scrutinised Daincaz Kesaeal, captain of 8th Company of the Sons of the Phoenix. And whose death…
Inner Daemons
I coughed up blood while staring up at Darleah as she applied pressure to the bullet wound in my abdomen. The firelight glistened in her concerned, amber eyes. Above the…
Nought but a Shell
Eamon hears the screaming long before the doors to his sanctuary burst open, and The Unbound spill in like an arterial bleed. Within their armoured mass, a woman bucks and…
Tinnitus
The jungle spewed the stench of wet loam, burning ozone, and freshly spilt blood. The Tyranid swarm's cacophony was absolute, a relentless tide of alien shrieks tearing through the canopy.…
Across the Vast and Lonely Void
Of the four beings present at your birth, none were fully cognizant of it. For your mother’s part, the drug-induced stupefaction was administered against her will. The fraying attention of…
Canary
The dark was freezing, and shivered with the distant crump of artillery fire. The smell of ferrocrete and damp. The taste of lilac and brass.Too late, Trog felt the tensile…
Failsafe
‘Subject: Malach. Determine loyalty.’The sanctioned psyker murmured the words to himself before lifting his gaze to the figure restrained within the chamber. The Astartes stood motionless, dark armour heavy with…
Sausages
The smell of frying grox-sausage drifted through the observation post. Fat, herbs, and grease hung thick in the air, strangely comforting in a silent city.Bill Brighteyes, BB to his mates,…