Blood Angels 5 - Black Tide by Warhammer

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

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Kayne shook his head, and pointed to a large needle-dial on the far bulkhead. The pointer was

crossing a band of yellow, making slow progress towards a red stop. “Depth gauge,” he explained.

“Much less ocean beneath our keel and we’ll be crushed like a spent shell case.”

“Look at those bone plates,” added Gast, nodding at the image. “I’ll warrant that behemoth

could survive the depths far better than we could.”

“The other way, then,” Turcio replied. “Raise the ship. If it’s a deep-dweller, when we make for

the surface, it might lose interest—”

Twin impacts off the port bow jerked the Neimos sideways, the torsion popping rivets from the

inner hull. Puluo swore beneath his breath as a panel near to him coughed out a shower of sparks

and died. “Beastie doesn’t seem like one to be easily discouraged.”

Rafen sniffed, and caught the smells of baking wires and stale seawater wafting in from the

corridor. “It’ll tear us apart if we don’t stop it.”

“The Neimos is armed with lascannon turrets,” ventured Eigen. “Mohl mentioned it before…”

He swallowed and went on. “Blue-green frequency lasers, tuned for use underwater.”

“No good,” Noxx replied. “That thing is directly upon us, inside point-blank range.”

“We’ll need to deal with this in a more direct manner,” Rafen agreed. “Look it in the eye.”

“Out there?” Eigen blinked.

The Blood Angel sergeant nodded. “Out there.”

Noxx folded his arms. “A blunt way of doing it. I almost approve.” He leaned in. “Almost. But

what about Zellik and these ‘fragments’? We can’t ignore what the psyker said. If some ghost of that

unctuous fool is stalking this ship, we leave ourselves open to a knife in the back!”

“Indeed,” Rafen agreed. “That’s why you will take Brother Kayne and Codicier Ceris into the

lower decks of the Neimos, and find the host where Zellik’s mind is hiding. Kill it and be done.” He

turned away before the Flesh Tearer could respond. “Gast, Turcio. You two will remain here and

maintain an open vox link. Keep this chamber secure at all costs.” The others nodded.

Rafen’s gaze swept the other Astartes; Ajir, Eigen and Puluo. “The rest of us are going to get our

feet wet.”

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