【战锤40k同人作品翻译】Ennui 第七章:寂静 Silence(7)
“Quickly,” I repeated softly, slipping a hand beneath her arm as we reached a shattered stairwell and heaved her up the broken rubble.
She accepted my help sullenly, I could taste the distrust in her breath and mind, but also the confusion and uncertainty, and that was what drove me.
I did not know why I told her the truth, but I do know why I have permitted her to come with me.
Her taste, the flavor of her soul, was without equal.
Not in a hundred Aeldari lifetimes have I tasted something quite like that. In the instant when she first gazed upon me as I danced among the Ork brutes, she did not yet ken to my true nature as Aeldari. When she saw me, she saw something indescribably beautiful, and in that moment I tasted something new from her.