【战锤40k同人作品翻译】 Ennui 第二十五章:光芒 Light(25)
A war between purity and corruption. Between orthodox and excess… a war between the light of Alessa’s divine God-Emperor and the shadow of the Prince of Excess itself.
“Can you feel Him fighting, my love?” Alessa's voice was a harsh, rasping whisper in the torrential rain. She asked as if she already knew the answer, as if she knew that I had realised what I was seeing.
“Can you feel His love?”
I could.
Just as I could feel the endless cataclysm that rolled through the Empyrean in waves as Alessa’s God-Emperor cast Himself against the Doom of the Aeldarii, pitting his ravenous golden light against the endless hunger of She Who Thirsts, and what’s more?
He was winning.
Pain ravaged me, endless and unfaded. Every wave was as agonising as the last, if not more, and through it all Alessa cradled me, urging me to endure the punishment out of love for her.
And I would
I would endure anything for her. She had suffered to look upon the soul of my whole damned species, and worse she had looked upon mine, and despite what she must have seen in those harrowing moments… she had forgiven me. She had forgiven me for the unspeakable sins that stained not only my species, but those specific to me.
“Can you feel Him fighting, my love?” Alessa's voice was a harsh, rasping whisper in the torrential rain. She asked as if she already knew the answer, as if she knew that I had realised what I was seeing.
“Can you feel His love?”
I could.
Just as I could feel the endless cataclysm that rolled through the Empyrean in waves as Alessa’s God-Emperor cast Himself against the Doom of the Aeldarii, pitting his ravenous golden light against the endless hunger of She Who Thirsts, and what’s more?
He was winning.
Pain ravaged me, endless and unfaded. Every wave was as agonising as the last, if not more, and through it all Alessa cradled me, urging me to endure the punishment out of love for her.
And I would
I would endure anything for her. She had suffered to look upon the soul of my whole damned species, and worse she had looked upon mine, and despite what she must have seen in those harrowing moments… she had forgiven me. She had forgiven me for the unspeakable sins that stained not only my species, but those specific to me.