The Voice in the Spire by Games Workshop Ltd

Author:Games Workshop Ltd
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Games Workshop Ltd
Published: 2019-02-27T16:55:56+00:00

When they reached the next ledge, Matius knew what would happen, but felt powerless to prevent it. The voice was almost a scream now, a fever pitch that clawed at the back of the eyes. It was Forster who turned, those red welts almost forming words in the flesh of his face.

Matius and Perfew evicted Forster’s quivering body together, then sat staring into the white void, neither able to meet the other’s gaze.

‘I think I’m starting to understand,’ Perfew said, after a long and hollow silence.

When Matius looked at her with incomprehension, she explained, ‘The voice. I’m starting to understand what it’s saying.’

‘Don’t,’ Matius said quickly, as if denying its existence would rob it of its power. ‘Don’t speak of it.’

‘It’s not going away,’ she said. But he turned his back on her and drew his greatcoat collar up about his ears. He could not admit that he was also beginning to make out some of the words.

***

He must have slept, somehow, although he couldn’t remember doing so. But as he came to, dawn had come again and he was alone. There was no sign of Perfew. Her safety harness lay in a crumpled heap beside him. The clouds broke for a moment, and a glimmer of sunlight spilled through onto the place where he sat. For the first time in memory, he felt contented, and he smiled. A voice spoke to him of the coming of the end of all things, and he understood. As he turned to continue his climb towards salvation, he caught a reflection of his face in the polished steel of the spire. Written there in the flesh were red words of sacred profanity – the instructions for his unholy ascension. He obeyed.

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