Spear of the Emperor - Aaron Dembski-Bowden by Warhammer 40K

Author:Warhammer 40K [40K, Warhammer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781789994148
Published: 2019-05-17T09:40:07+00:00

XV

A REVELATION OF DESTRUCTION

1

I didn’t wake as if from slumber. Whether sudden or slow, waking implies a restoration of awareness. This was different. This was a halting, dragging emergence, with a delirious lack of haste. It was a crawl back to consciousness, inch by inch, little by little. Sometimes there were sounds in the silence. Sometimes there were impressions in the nothingness. A flare of pain in the numbness. A splash of grey in the black.

Nothing as solid as memory or thought, just moments of sensation, each one separated and out of context. The banging of hammers on metal. The rough roar of flames. The hiss of unclean tongues.

Down again.

Deep, deep down.

But the voices began following me. They intruded on my bleary oblivion. They were whispery and meaningless, and whether they belonged to the living or the dead, I neither knew nor cared. I shrank back from them. For a time, it worked.

But then… a voice I knew.

‘This heat, Anuradha. Throne, I’ve forgotten what fresh air feels like.’

Tyberia?

She sounded impossibly far away, and the only clear thought I had was that her words hadn’t come with the chitinous crackle of sound over a vox-link. I remember it so adamantly because it was the first clear thought I’d had in the uncounted hours of that timeless time.

I didn’t pursue her, or the mystery of her voice. I sank, back into the black.

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