I’d gone over the edge. Now, everyone was trying to reel me back in.

Paric Kilhaven shows his date the darker side of life in a hive city.

To view the evening as anything less than a date would have been crass, but to assume we were a couple, well, that would have been worse.

A wayward psyker finds himself under a microscope.

The war on Aegea V comes to an unexpected end. The Warmaster isn't pleased.

Paric meets an old friend in the oddest of places.

Backed by an Astartes company, Five makes his final move against the Bloodthorn. Infiltrating Dembele Prime, he goes all-in against Chaos.

Taking refuge in the shadowy underhive, Five lays a trap, while two inquisitors and an Astartes captain arrive to see what he has wrought.

I had become the most dangerous person on the planet, and the conversation with Inquisitor Mantiserra made sure everyone knew it. That fact left me in quarantine, waiting for Sarkyss or the Imperial Guard to respond.

Kill Aetor first. That had been the Inquisitor’s impossible plan.