Requiem Infernal (Warhammer 40,000) by Peter Fehervari

Author:Peter Fehervari [Fehervari, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2019-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

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The Testimony of Asenath Hyades – Eighth Statement

Four days have elapsed since I last set quill to parchment. Outwardly they have passed in tranquillity, even yielding a measure of hope for my charges, if not for myself. Since our arrival at the Sacrasta only Breacher Rynfeld has succumbed to the Razorblight, but his death and subsequent dissection at the palatine’s hands may not be in vain, for the treatments she has devised to purge the xenos taint are showing promise. Akaishi Bhatori may be a monster, and a maker of them, but I cannot fault her brilliance. Perhaps some good may come of her inhumanity.

But now I must write of the shadows under the skin, of both the Sacrasta and myself, for that’s where the best tales always lie – long, short or taller than a damned girl’s doubts and dreams, all true to tell until told.

Each morning I have returned to the palatine’s basement sanctum and conversed with the prisoner she has chosen for her Harrowed Artisan. He is a witch, yet I believe he is an innocent – no, much more than that! – a being of passing grace. Despite his tender years he has the gravity of a far older soul, albeit one still seeking the words and wisdom to express itself. I sense all the Virtues Illuminant at work in this boy, but humility above all, which is likely what girds him against the Archenemy’s temptations. Whenever we speak I find myself wondering what he might become if granted the opportunity to flourish and nourish his gift unfettered by the insipid tenets of morality.

My revered Canoness Sanghata, I am aware that such sentiments would be deemed heretical by many in our convent, but the Holy Imperium has always numbered stalwart witch-kin among its heroes, not least among the Librarians of the Adeptus Astartes. Is it so unlikely that a child who has endured in the shallows of the Sea of Souls might grow into a man capable of wielding its energies for mankind’s betterment? Or its pristine dismemberment?

Whatever else occurs here, I have resolved to save this boy, Athanazius. I suspect Bhatori has delayed his modifications until he is older, not out of kindness, but so he will better fit the avatar’s aspect. I will not allow her to twist his body and maim his soul as she has done to the others caught in her web, and as she is currently doing to Toland Feizt.

I should have guessed her intentions towards the breach sergeant from the start, for his hulking form and stamina are the perfect foundations for her missing avatar.

The Blind Watchman, like the Penitent Knight of Temperans, is a warrior figure, its height and build mirroring that of a Space Marine. Unlike the armoured Knight, the Watchman’s alabaster flesh is naked save for a loincloth and a bandage covering its cauterised eye sockets. Smoke wafts perpetually from these wounds, for they still smoulder with the sacred fire that took the avatar’s sight. Traditionally

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