Aqua Sanctus by Games Workshop Ltd

Author:Games Workshop Ltd
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Games Workshop Ltd
Published: 2019-02-27T17:01:22+00:00

The vanguard of the rioting crowd spilled into the chamber, torches and crude weapons held aloft. Zoel raised her boltgun and they stopped, their leader spreading his arms out across the gaggle of scrawny protesters in a protective gesture.

Susana saw the man gaze at her with an awed expression. It was a reaction she was used to receiving when she encountered civilians, so unaccustomed were they to witnessing the stature and grace of a Sister of Battle in the flesh. But his eyes were haunted by suffering, and she found herself stirring uncomfortably beneath his glare.

‘Please,’ he said, gesturing to the font with the empty bottle he held in one hand. ‘We are so thirsty.’

‘Purge them!’ Tanyon clamoured.

Zoel took a step forwards, her gun trained on the leader.

‘Wait.’

Sister Susana walked past her comrade and approached the restless throng. She wrenched the bottle from the leader’s hand and studied it. With an air of reverence, she took the bottle back to the font and filled it with the consecrated liquid, before returning it to its owner. He stared at it blankly for a moment, then met her eyes in understanding.

‘Sister Superior!’ Tanyon raged, backing away to the font and obscuring it with his substantial bulk. ‘You abandon your duty to the Ecclesiarchy? To the Emperor?’

‘No, Preacher,’ Susana said. ‘I do not.’

With a tilt of her head, the Sister Superior issued a wordless order to Zoel, who lowered her weapon and went to her commander’s side. The two walked through the crowd, the people parting to let them pass like an ocean drawing in before releasing a great wave. Then, as they left the antechamber and passed through the cloisters, they heard the people baying and crying with relief and thankfulness – and their praises rang so loud that the dying shrieks of Preacher Destimus Tanyon could barely be made out at all.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.