Dawn of War 2 - Ascension by Warhammer

Author:Warhammer [Warhammer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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clambered to his feet next to Prathios, resting his gauntleted hand on his old friend’s shoulder in a

gesture of gratitude and confusion.

“What in the Emperor’s name is going on?”

Having made her way down into the dig, winding through the shaking corridors of Meritia’s tower,

Ptolemea crouched down to the ground, pressing her fingers against the ancient inscriptions that

adorned the ruined foundations of what once must have been a great fortress monastery on Rahe’s

Paradise. She traced the shapes of the unusual script and lingered on the decorative pictures that had

been carved directly into the stonework. There were definitely Space Marines in the time-worn

images, although it was impossible to differentiate any particular features or individual characters;

the detailing had been lost to the weather and to history ages before. She stared at them, bringing her

face so close to the relief that her pale nose almost touched the stone: there was something

disturbing about the images, but it remained just out of reach of her thoughts. She had never heard

of Blood Ravens artefacts dating from more than four or five millennia before, and this lost

monastery must have been considerably older than that.

She took another look at the Marines in the fresco, touching her skin against the texture of their

armour, trying to feel whether there was still some trace of their Chapter insignia. In the back of her

mind, she wondered whether they were not Blood Ravens at all. Then she shook her head, trying to

clear it of these extraneous thoughts, and she pulled back from the stone images: she was not here to

help Jonas with his research, she had an investigation of her own to conduct. It did occur to her,

however, that Meritia’s condition and her own lapses might both be connected to something on

Rahe’s Paradise—the commonality might well turn out to be Captain Angelos himself, which would

not surprise her given the information that had been supplied by Librarian Isador Akios before he

mysteriously died on Tartarus, but it might also have something to do with the history of the planet

itself.

Taking another quick look around the excavation site, Ptolemea strode over to the hole that

dropped down to the next level. At some point in the past it had clearly been covered by a large,

heavy, rectangular block—presumably some kind of hatchway or door. The ground on each side of

the indentation around the hole was riddled with tiny tracks and carved lines, like veins in the rock.

They interlaced and crisscrossed in complicated webs, but it was clear that their patterns would have

continued across the surface of the missing slab, since a number of veins were terminated abruptly

at the lips of the indentation. At first, Ptolemea thought that the little channels had been cut by water

trickling through the rock, or perhaps that insects had trawled their way through the earth long ago,

leaving their trails carved into the stone as their only legacy. However, as she looked more carefully,

it became clear that the lines had been cut by hand, deliberately etched into the rock in this specific

pattern, although the significance of the pattern was beyond her.

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