Loss by Joe Parrino

Author:Joe Parrino
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-13T00:00:00+00:00

I was the one who found Quladis, his broken body chained to a gnarled tree. Alien runes stood out against his pale skin. Blood still wept from the corpse, flowing from great gashes in the dead Scout’s flesh. His eyes were wide, staring. It was the most horrifying thing I had ever seen. The other Scouts surrounded me, their own black eyes wide and disgusted.

Vendral: ‘Take him down! Harvest the progenoids!’

None of us moved, we were shocked. Our invincibility was revealed as a lie. Dark thoughts flashed through me. Grief boiled up. This was loss, this was death. The fate that likely awaited us all. I lacked the words to give it voice, lacked the words that honor my brothers fallen in service to the Raven Guard and the Imperium. It ate at my thoughts, dulled my senses.

Quladis had never been a welcoming soul, never been one to consider a friend. The young man had been aloof, quiet, brooding. But he was a brother to us all and now he was dead. I could feel Vendral’s own frustration, his own grief, his anger at losing of one of his charges. Before he could speak Lukaj began hurling Quladis’ corpse form its perch.

FX - ELDAR WHISPERING VOICES

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