Blood Angels 4 - Red Fury by Warhammer

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

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“Hold, cousin,” said Sentikan. “This is your Apothecae Majoris, is it not? Why not let him

speak? What harm can one more voice do?”

Dante bristled at the Angel Sanguine’s words. “My Brother Caecus is a learned man. But I fear

his reach may exceed his grasp.”

“Not so!” Caecus retorted. “Not anymore! I have mastered the skill of the replicae… I have a

success!”

“What does he say?” Seth cocked his head. “Cloning? It cannot be done!” He bared his teeth. “If

such a thing were possible, the Flesh Tearers would have used it to bolster the numbers of our own

Chapter, centuries ago!”

“You tried to use replicae to recover your losses?” asked Orloc.

“No.” The Lord of the Blood Angels became still. His face became granite-hard. “Caecus. You

were ordered to desist in pursuit of this. Did you defy me?”

The Apothecary’s bluster faltered in the face of his master’s icy manner. “I… You said only that

I did not have your blessing, lord. You did not order me to stop.”

“You dare to play with semantics like some Ministorum lackey?” snarled Mephiston. “You

knew the intent behind the master’s words!”

Dante shook his head. “I am disappointed, brother. I expected better from you.”

“You should only be disappointed if he failed,” said Seth, coming forward with a sudden, new

intensity in his eyes. “What of it then, Caecus? Where is this success you talk of?”

“Here, lords,” Nyniq dared to speak as she reached up and drew back the hood of the silent

figure in the robes. “See the first of them. The first Bloodchild.” The warrior stood unmoving.

An odd silence fell across the room for a few moments as the assembled Chapter Masters

studied the clone, each one of them weighing the grave import of its presence. Their reactions

ranged from sneers of derision to cold, measuring stares.

“This is a genetic duplicate?” said Armis, clearly unconvinced. “He appears… a commonplace

Astartes, nothing more.”

“This is the first Sapiens Sanguina!” Caecus snapped. “A fully mature Blood Angel Space

Marine force-grown from a nascent zygote sample, made manifest by my will!”

Seth turned toward Dante. “Why did you keep this from us, cousin?”

“I saw no merit in this work,” came the reply. “By his own admission, Caecus had nothing to

show for his research.”

“That was before,” said the Apothecae Majoris. “I have…” He glanced at Nyniq. “Made a

breakthrough.”

“Every clone you have created thus far has been unstable,” Mephiston growled. “All your

attempts to duplicate the work of Corax have come to nought. Yet now you enter this chamber

uninvited to parade one chance success and call it an achievement?”

“I ask only for what I spoke of before!” Caecus retorted. “To be allowed to do my part to draw

my Chapter back from the brink of dissolution!”

Daggan’s torso turned to present his steel face to the assembled masters. “If this can be done…

If this ‘Bloodchild’ is no fluke, then it will mean much for all our Chapters, not just for the Blood

Angels.”

“The ability to recoup losses in months instead of years,” mused Orloc. “It would be a tactical

advantage worth having.”

Dante’s eyes narrowed. “Cousins, in this matter I would counsel restraint.

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