Lord of the Dark Millennium - Dan Abnett by Warhammer 40K
Author:Warhammer 40K [40K, Warhammer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781789993233
Published: 2019-11-05T15:44:54+00:00
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Harlon Naylâs eyes didnât so much as blink as the fist came at him. His left hand went out, tilting inwards, captured the manâs arm neatly around the inside of the wrist, and wrenched it right around through two hundred degrees. A bone may have snapped, but if it did, the sound was masked by the manâs strangled squeal, a noise which ended suddenly as Naylâs other hand connected with his face.
The man â a thickset lhotas-eater with a mucus problem â shivered the deck as he hit it. Nayl kept hold of his wrist, pulling the manâs arm straight and tight while he stood firmly on his armpit. This position allowed for significant leverage, and Nayl made use of it. Harlon was in a take-no-prisoners mood, I sensed, which was hardly useful given our objective.
A little leverage and rotation. A ghastly scream, vocalised through a face spattered with blood.
âWhat do you reckon?â asked Nayl, twisting a little more and increasing the pitch. âDo you think I can get top C out of him?â
âShould I care?â replied Morpal Who Moves with mannered disinterest. âYou can twist Manxâs arm right off and beat him around the head with it, he still wonât tell you what you want. Heâs a lho-brow. He knows nothing.â
Nayl smiled, twisted, got another shriek. âOf course he is. I worked that much out from his scintillating conversation. But one of you does. One of you knows the answer I want. Sooner or later his screams will aggravate you so much youâll tell me.â
Morpal Who Moves had a face like a crushed walnut. He sat back in his satin-upholstered buoy-chair and fiddled with a golden rind-shriver, a delicate tool that glittered between his bony fingers. He was weighing up what to say. I could read the alternatives in his forebrain like the label on a jar.
âThis is not good for businessââ
âSir, this is my place of business, and I donât take kindly toââ
âThrone of Earth, who the frig dâyou think you areââ
Morpalâs place was a four-hectare loading dock of iron, stock-brick and timber hinged out over the vast canyon gulf of the West Descent, an aerial thoroughfare formed by the gap between two of the hiveâs most colossal stacks. Beneath the reinforced platform and the gothic buttresses that supported it, space dropped away for almost a vertical kilometre to the base of the stacks. Ostensibly, this was a ledge where cargo-flitters and load-transporters â and many thousands of these craft plied the airways of the West Descent â could drop in for repairs, fuel, or whatever else the pilots needed. But Morpal was a fence and racketeer, and the transience of the dockâs traffic gave him ample opportunity to steal, replace, backhand, smuggle and otherwise run his lucrative trade. More than twenty men stood in a loose group around Harlon. Most were stevedores and dock labourers in Morpalâs employ. The others were flit-pilots, gig-men, hoy-drivers and riggers whoâd stopped in for caffeine, fuel and a game of cards, many of them regulars who were into Morpal for more than a yearâs salary each.
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