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Harrow the ninth7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() We’ve got half an hour of air-con left … after that, you’ll be working in the oven. God’s voice came very calmly over the comm: Screaming was the least of what might happen. ![]() You understood your body’s reaction to the proximity. Sometimes you screamed a little, which no longer embarrassed you. In that smothering dark, your breath emerged as wisps of wet grey smoke. A fine shimmer of frost now coated your cheeks, your hair, your eyelashes. There was nothing to see-the shutters were down-but you could feel the terrible vibration, hear the groan of chitin on metal, the cataclysmic rending of steel by fungous claw. YOUR ROOM HAD LONG AGO plunged into near-complete darkness, leaving no distraction from the great rocking thump-thump-thump of body after body flinging itself onto the great mass already coating the hull. Nine for the Tomb, and for all that was lost. Two is for discipline, heedless of trial Three for the gleam of a jewel or a smile Four for fidelity, facing ahead įive for tradition and debts to the dead One for the Emperor, first of us all One for his Lyctors, who answered the call One for his Saints, who were chosen of old One for his Hands, and the swords that they hold. ![]()
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