The Cut
‘Sigma-33/Mars, fire at that flying Tyranid.’My mistress, Magus Anydrus, simply gives the order. Her voice echoes through all my circuits, and obedience is immediate. I use my Lascannon on the…
The Price of Paper
He had sold his sister’s body for corpse-starch and sworn never to be that kind of bastard again. Now, he was damning strangers for the price of a meal-token.Against every…
Egg
Lethia had a friend. She didn’t exactly call it a “friend”, more like a “pet”. But where she lived, she didn’t have many friends, and she was glad to find the…
The Shaking
Lorn was strong. That was all that mattered. An Ogryn’s worth was in his arms and shoulders, in how many rocks he could split digging the trenches, how many heavy shells he could carry on his shoulders, how many enemies he could smash flat with the butt of his ripper gun.
An Old Bolter’s Requiem
Long have I served he whom they call The Emperor. I have no name but that which they gave me: 43. That was stamped on me in a time so…
The Eye
Chloe paced carefully through the dark-wood pews, her footsteps a small echo in the tiny chapel devoted to Saint Elana the Unbroken.She approached the plain and simple altar and delicately…
The Soul in Shadow
Inquisitor Kael Varro had always considered his instincts infallible.They had guided him through the Ordos’ labyrinth of lies, through the endless war of interpretation that was the Inquisition itself. He…
False Harmony
Tibor stared at the readout, as if unaugmented eyes could discern something his blessed cogitation array could not. The last canticles of stability whispered through his noospheric link, leaving only…
The Sin of Mercy
Funerary bells resounded through the nave of St. Semina, and rows of black-robed sisters bowed their heads beneath white veils. Four of their number bore a shrouded bier upon their…
Lex Incarnate
‘On my mark.’Armoured bodies tensed. Riot shields and shock batons were gripped. The red lumens of breaching charges pulsed steadily.Provost-Savant Arkion looked at the enforcer squad's leader. ‘Vox?’‘Jammers active, sir.’‘Pict recorders?’‘Deactivated,…