Sanctuary - Jonathan Green Read online

  ‘How can he? Dead men keep their secrets.’

  ‘There is a way.’ Helquist cast his eyes awkwardly at the ground. ‘I have some telepathic ability. The inquisitor has not been dead long. I might still be able to glean the information you require from his mind before it is gone forever.’

  ‘What? Witchcraft?’ Brant riled. ‘You would suggest that a marshal of the most devout Black Templars Chapter - who have persecuted witches across the Imperium of mankind throughout our ten thousand year history - debase himself by using such treacherous, blasphemous means to uncover the secrets of the dead?’

  Silence hung in the air between the Space Marine and the interrogator for a moment.

  ‘It could be the only way,’ Helquist said simply.

  * * *

  A GRIM-FACED Marshal Brant gazed across the bridge of the fleet flagship Divine Fury, at the yellow-ochre planet retreating into the void as displaced on the ship’s view-screen. The recycled air seemed touched with cold after the heat of the world below. ‘Two hours to warp jump point,’ a junior bridge officer informed his commander.

  ‘Prepare for a ship-wide communication,’ Brant ordered.

  Comms-slaved servitors opened appropriate channels throughout the five kilometre-long vessel.

  ‘Brothers, while we mourn the loss of our brethren who fell protecting one of the Emperor’s worlds from the advance of the accursed genestealers, remember that they did not die in vain. For not only is the planet, named here as Sanctuary, free of its xenos infestation and clean again in the sight of the Emperor, I also now have the information for which we have travelled so far and so long.

  ‘The aliens who perpetrated the vilest of acts against our chapter on Solemnus, who follow the debased image of the Scarred Ork, are the Blood Scar tribe. Now our enemy has a name, we shall hunt the greenskins down and be avenged upon them for the honour they stole from us, for our brothers who have died in pursuit of this quest, for all that they have cost us so dearly. They shall not escape our wrath, for they can run but they can hide no longer, for this is our last crusade!’

 

 

  Warhammer 40K, Sanctuary - Jonathan Green

 

 

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