Crisis of Faith by Phil Kelly

Author:Phil Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-31T16:22:48+00:00

THE IMMATERIUM

Amongst the roiling clouds of raw emotion, a presence stirred. The entity saw a light, glowing and fierce – a lantern and a portal both. It fixed one glowing red eye upon it.

A fresh breach, there for the taking amongst the swirling clouds of nothingness. Already the lesser ones flocked around it, flapping their weak little wings as they tried to force themselves through. Few furies had the essence-power to rip their way through into the flesh-world. Few were anything but insects by comparison.

The entity dived, shrieking in triumph. No doubt its kindred would hear the cry, and come in close, pushing through in their turn. It cared little. By then, it would have glutted itself on hot flesh and raw agony, and become strong in the sight of the gods. Either that, or the portal would close, healing up like a wound or a sutured mouth. If the portal closed before the predator could reach it, it would vent its frustration on the lesser ones, tearing apart every entity it could find. If the breach closed soon after the predator had passed through, all the better; it would hunt alone and unrivalled.

Soaring towards the flickering portal, the entity folded its wings, spitting red-hot bullets into the lesser ones that flocked like moths around the lambent portal. The wretches shrieked in abject fear as the creature dived through, scattering them like sparrows.

For a moment, the predator knew nothingness.

Then it felt its thoughts coalescing and crystallising once more. Its mortal form was hardening into metal and white hot anger. Piston-driven claws flexed as it ripped its way through the veil, its mechanisms and hull growing ever more solid as it emerged from the transdimensional chrysalis-stuff of the breach.

Nearly there. Nearly time to hunt.

The predator felt a strange gelid substance around it, and pushed through, its jet furnaces driving it forward towards the glittering black shroud ahead. There were silhouettes there, shapes in the darkness. The outlines of mortal ships.

The shapes of prey.

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