【战锤40k同人作品翻译】Ennui 第二十二章：对策 Measures(20)
They could not know.
They couldn’t know that Isarae wasn’t simply accepting her death. She could find any death in all the galaxy if she so desired… she was choosing this death for one reason and one reason only.
My hands were shaking again as I watched Isarae bow her head, and shame filled my heart. It was different this time, though, because before this I had known shame only for my actions and my sins against the God-Emperor and my sisters, but now?
Now my shame was so much heavier because I had betrayed Isarae. My wonderful, beautiful Isarae who I had been prepared to kill had, unaware of the threat I posed, chosen to mercifully spare my sisters because of me.
That notion was cemented as I read her last words on her lips.
Forgive me.
Oh, Isarae… there was nothing to forgive.
Her next words were curling Aeldari syllables, but the final word at the end of the sentence was one I knew well.
It wasn’t an Aeldari word after all.
Her final word was my name.
//Execute her.//
I didn’t even think before I moved. I altered my aim in an instant, slammed the bolter against the rail, leaned my weight against it, flipped the setting to fully automatic, and was only dimly aware of my own voice screaming in manifold rage as I unloaded the full magazine straight down into the plaza-
They couldn’t know that Isarae wasn’t simply accepting her death. She could find any death in all the galaxy if she so desired… she was choosing this death for one reason and one reason only.
My hands were shaking again as I watched Isarae bow her head, and shame filled my heart. It was different this time, though, because before this I had known shame only for my actions and my sins against the God-Emperor and my sisters, but now?
Now my shame was so much heavier because I had betrayed Isarae. My wonderful, beautiful Isarae who I had been prepared to kill had, unaware of the threat I posed, chosen to mercifully spare my sisters because of me.
That notion was cemented as I read her last words on her lips.
Forgive me.
Oh, Isarae… there was nothing to forgive.
Her next words were curling Aeldari syllables, but the final word at the end of the sentence was one I knew well.
It wasn’t an Aeldari word after all.
Her final word was my name.
//Execute her.//
I didn’t even think before I moved. I altered my aim in an instant, slammed the bolter against the rail, leaned my weight against it, flipped the setting to fully automatic, and was only dimly aware of my own voice screaming in manifold rage as I unloaded the full magazine straight down into the plaza-
冰九囚笼二十六
