Ashes by Martin Allen

Author:Martin Allen
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Evernet Publishing
Published: 2015-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

“Good enough and thanks.”

“Don’t thank me yet, we could all end up in a court marshal if I screw this up.”

Gurges took his station overlooking the prisoners, he did not want to start surveying the crates until he was not assigned; it would look more as if he was truly attending to his weapon. He could hardly take his weapon apart for maintenance when he was supposed to be on alert to use it. Every so often he would glance to his left where the unloading continued unabated. The line of black clad soldiers looked like ant carrying loads back to their nests but Gurges knew that the loads were something more sinister than food. It was not just the fact that Sergeant Curtius was worried, although that did little to salve his mind. The rumours of the sheer brutality and amorality of the Black Guard had reached his ears too. Given that Gurges was acquainted with some of the less reputable people in the Empire, although not the truly malevolent, he was a low-level acquirer of less than legal items, not a full-blown criminal. For a while now there had been whisperings of the Empire taking certain groups more seriously, more raids in the night of those suspected of not subscribing to the beliefs of Sol Invictus. This was not just the arrests of those suspected of being of another faith, for they were already common, but now there were also the capture of those who merely did not believe. Many of the more seedy inhabitants of the Empire simply nodded their head in the direction of belief and continued their merry way. However, they had started to attend sermons at the Temple more regularly and allow the priests more leeway in their business dealings. Gurges could tell there would soon be a crackdown if the criminal elements were becoming pious, especially as it was not in their financial best interest, from a purely economic point of view.

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