【战锤40k同人作品翻译】Ennui 第二十二章:对策 Measures(13)
Maybe she would be angry with me, or perhaps she would be flattered at my choice. Either way, it would be an ending to this strange life we had made for ourselves here.
She would leave me to find her death, and I knew in my heart that a part of me would go out and die with her.
Perhaps after returning to my Order, I would take up the mantle of Repentia.
My death would be assured, and perhaps in that I could find some manner of atonement for my sins over these many cycles.
And in the deepest shadows of my mind I wondered if, maybe, I would find Isarae waiting for me too.
The sound of explosive rounds tore me from my thoughts, and I jerked my head up sharply at the noise. It wasn’t the unhealthy cough of Ork shootas making that sound, but the strong steady bark of an Imperial bolter, and it was incredibly near.
Shaking the last cobwebs from my mind, I dashed out to the balcony and leaned against the railing, hanging to the side and looking back and forth, straining my ears to try and locate the source of the sounds through the acoustic shadows of the Hive spires.
She would leave me to find her death, and I knew in my heart that a part of me would go out and die with her.
Perhaps after returning to my Order, I would take up the mantle of Repentia.
My death would be assured, and perhaps in that I could find some manner of atonement for my sins over these many cycles.
And in the deepest shadows of my mind I wondered if, maybe, I would find Isarae waiting for me too.
The sound of explosive rounds tore me from my thoughts, and I jerked my head up sharply at the noise. It wasn’t the unhealthy cough of Ork shootas making that sound, but the strong steady bark of an Imperial bolter, and it was incredibly near.
Shaking the last cobwebs from my mind, I dashed out to the balcony and leaned against the railing, hanging to the side and looking back and forth, straining my ears to try and locate the source of the sounds through the acoustic shadows of the Hive spires.