>>5537839Fulgrim was about to speak but found his voice catch in his throat...he heard a sound, something...divine, honey, comfort, warmth...cold...bittersweet he heard pleasure given sound and he shuddered in rapture his Queen of Excess speaking through him.
“Oh dear scholar you think yourself a match for my champion? You denied me and now I am glad for I found one more worthy” Fulgrim preened in his mind space at such worthy praise.
“I do” Lieren answered simply as something began to change about him, a technique Fulgrim knew from both personal observation and report. His brother's mummer's magic to take the form of another, a laughable trick for whose from could possibly resist his guile and skill who could possibly defeat him? Who could-
“YOU DARE!” Slannesh bellowed in rage through him tearing his perfect cheeks open teeth growing inches in a second and a whip like tongue escaping his throat.
Fulgrim focused once more as the shimmering faded...a strange figure was looking back...not his brother? Something else.
It laughed, it's joy filled him with dread
it's mirth made him feel empty
The smiling thing didn't look at him only through.
His was no battle between brothers,
It was a rematch millennia coming.
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