Duty’s Burden
++ Do not look to us for kindness. Do not look to us for hope. We are not the kind children of this new age. We are the rocks of…
++ Do not look to us for kindness. Do not look to us for hope. We are not the kind children of this new age. We are the rocks of…
The sea of the Ethereals swarmed with relentless wisps of agony, missed opportunities and the regrets and fears of millions unborn. The eddies bracketed her ancient vessel as a creature…
Now: ‘Hyades! Hyades! Hyades!’ howls the monster in the void. The voice of the Daemonship – hot with fury, rank with spite – screams across every spectrum, defying the silence…
‘T’ was the last letter Agnes drew with her quill. She indulged herself for a moment as she regarded her work.‘Si hoc legere potes, nimium scis et occidi oportet,’ was…
How many years? To look at the lines on her face you’d think it had been at least a decade, but that’s not what the chronometer said. She stuck to numbers she could trust.
Recalled to Yujua. Those three words spread through the camp like wildfire. Pak can see it in the men’s faces. Wonder. Relief. Six years of war in the green fields…
Kill, the darkness told him. Less a thought or an impulse than a driving animus. It had framed the purpose before as purge or purify, but these were distortions, heat-haze…
We’re all going back home one way or another, preferably the same way we’ve all come to be here. I spend my days walking, have been for a while now.…
‘Ex-excuse me, Sister Magdala, when can I go home?’ asked the small hesitant voice. ‘The Schola Progenium is your home now,’ replied the Sororitas. The child extended her tiny hand to the imposing woman who had taken her away from her mother.
We thought it was a mistake initially. Onboard the Imperial Navy frigate Imperium Eternal, we dropped out of the warp at the Mandeville point for Bakka, intent on returning to the Segmentum naval base.