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.…
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…
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…
Bride of Tzeentch
Freedom is a ship that sails on a sea of blood. The blood in question belonged to the crew of our freighter, the Void Clipper. They lay where we had…
The Undying Saint
Haephestia’s footsteps echoed as she patrolled the salt-stone catacombs. At the end of her third circuit of the reliquary, Sister Superior Magdalene was waiting.‘Sister Haephestia.’‘Well met, Sister Superior. How fares…
The Damned Hound
Demon wolves hunted. They loped across the battlefield, gargantuan legs churning up the earth like gods. Only that they were not true wolves, but iron Warhounds sniffing the air, tracking their…
A Matter of Perspective
We were three bottles down, flushed with kill fever and the thrill of survival. I had reached that peculiar stage of rising euphoria with the longed-for crest still just out…
Legacy
Seated behind his desk, Tern gauged the approach of the lone woman entering his office, and reminded himself that Baldachins did not feel fear.No, he thought. That icy shiver was…
The Driver
I’m a driver. I take people where they need to go. Who I am is unimportant. My face is forgettable, my name doesn’t matter. I’m just another citizen in the vastness that is the Imperium. I am, however, a professional.
Aureum Lupus
Murderous glares transfixed the boy looking around the arena. Broken bones sliced his naked soles, freshly spilt blood oozing across crusted gore. Cold sweat rolled down the golden paint criss-crossing…