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“Fenris is a land of man and monsters!” Laughed the Primarch as he began reliving memories, “It was only when a she-wolf took pity on me that I even survived long enough to stand on my two feet. Even now I cannot help but honor her through her bloodline that now flows through all wolves that partner with my legion.”
“Beasts helped you live, interesting.” TalOS said as he took a moment from his drink to speak.
“To this day I do not know why she had done so. Let it be that she took pity upon a Man-Child, a bizarre blessing from the Spirits of Fenris, or even some knowledge of what I really was. Whatever the case she was my mother who was taken far too soon from me.”
“We can only pray that she was remade according to the laws of the universe.” TalOS told his fellow Primarch as he gave a small bow in prayer.
“For her service I hope she joined the spirits of Fenris. There is nothing we can do though as the dead cannot walk again!” Leman Russ gave another hearty laugh, “However there are more monsters than just the Dire Wolves who took me in. Let them be the Drakes that fly through the air like that of Terran Legend or the Bears that I spoke about earlier. Anything there is hostile to a fault. The greatest of their kind was the Iron Scale Kraken, an immense creature that I slayed with my two hands.”
“Iron Scale? I take that as a euphemism for the quality of hide?”
Russ only gave a grin upon that question, “No it was as hard as iron just as I said. While a waterbound creature its hide was covered in chichen like that of the Gregorian Turtles. I found that simple weapons made from wrought iron were useless against such a powerful shell and needed to be harmed on another way.”
“To strike underneath its armor or did you strike it with a bludgeon?” TalOS suggested as he allowed his mug to be refilled.
“You have both!” Laughed the Russite as he slammed his hand on his knee, “With my bare hands I struck the bonelike armor and caused great amounts of it to shatter. Reaching through the holes I made in its skin I tore out tendons and muscle until the creature could not resist going onto land with me. It was there that I finished it off with a brutal tearing of the heart!”
TalOS took a moment’s thought as he studied his brother closely, “How long were you underwater for the fight?”
The wolfman gave the man of machines a grin, “Enough.”
