Amidst the Flames by Games Workshop LTD

Author:Games Workshop LTD
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Games Workshop LTD
Published: 2018-11-22T11:28:04+00:00

Through a haze of pain, Drebs realised that a fiery glow was growing around him and that the blistering heat was growing more intense by the moment. Holy terror suffused him at the thought that they were bearing him into the forbidden and most sacred heart of the reactor. He felt as though the fluid was boiling off his eyeballs. Drebs tried to take shallow breaths, and to avoid picturing his skin curling like burning parchment.

‘Are you mad?’ he croaked. ‘We have to get out of here! The wrath of the holy machine… the heat…’

The heretics just laughed.

‘We don’t fear the holy machine,’ sneered the big brute, now striding ahead to the edge of an observation gantry. He stood amidst a swimming haze, his skin visibly scalding and blistering in the furious heat, and gestured over the edge. ‘We have other gods now. Much more powerful than that cold and distant thing on Mars.’

Drebs’ heart thundered as they dragged him to the edge.

‘Please,’ he gasped. ‘Please, I… please no…’

The vast chamber rang with the dragon’s breath whoosh of steam venting, the whine and clangour of machinery and, below it all, the menacing rumble of the lava channel flowing through the ironclad depths. Drebs whimpered in agony as the heretics pushed him to the very edge so that he was looking down the hundred foot drop into a river of molten rock and dancing flames.

‘See them, Offering,’ hissed the man at his left shoulder, and Drebs shuddered at the fanaticism in his voice. The man grabbed his head and pushed it down so that the overseer could not help but stare into the flames far below. He screwed his eyes up against the glare and the pain…

...then frowned. Drebs stared, blinking away boiling tears.

There was something down there. Something in the flames. Figures, he thought, dancing, cavorting, glowing figures. But how could that be? He felt an unholy curiosity consume him, despite his awful situation, a need to know that seemed to come from somewhere outside of his mind entirely. The heretics were chanting now, but as Drebs locked eyes with the glowing beings far below him the words seemed to fade into the distance, to become irrelevant in the face of some greater revelation yet to be had.

If he looked a little longer Drebs was sure that he would be able to make out precisely what he had been missing all this time. The thing below him leered hungrily.

The blow between the shoulder blades came so suddenly that Drebs was over the edge before he had even realised. By the time his body burst into flame and hit the lava at the base of the shaft, he was already dead.

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