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TalOS pondered to himself for a long moment upon hearing those words. The declaration that it was an impossibility was something that the realized truly could not be true. The one before him was simply untrained in the ways that they could truly bring harm upon people.
TalOS sent a thought to a Steel Warden which caused the Acillian to move with perfect accuracy. The Navigator looked upon such actions with a sense of wonder before a sudden piece of understanding came upon him. What was that understanding he did not say.
Was it something the Psyker saw or maybe a thought that had finally finished.
None of that matter though as the Acillian walked to their father and handed him a small glass cup and a knife.
“Navigator Lawrence.” TalOS began as he presented the hilt of the knife and the glass cup to the psyker, “I ask you, upon my authority, for twelve drops of blood from your veins.”
“Blood?” The Psyker looked confused before his human eyes began to widen, “You… I had only heard it in rumors…”
TalOS already figured out what the Navigator wished to say, “It is true. My breed of man, Astartes, and my Acillians are all able to process biomatter into memory and data. At this moment I desire yours.”
“Arch Dominus.” The Navigator said flatly with several tinges of anxiety within those words, “We the Navis Nobility are not allowed to give such information even to one like yourself. There are many things that we see that even yourself would find harrowing! I…”
“It will not kill me. And you are not the first.” TalOS told the Psyker as he waved his hand, “In my lifetime I have consumed two races of Psykers. One terrible beyond understanding that was learned from a most foul god and the other fools who think they understood the Warp.”
<span class="mu-i">“God…”</span> The psyker almost sounded terrified as he heard that word, <span class="mu-i">“You… you do not speak of fiction.”</span>
“So you do know.” TalOS told the Navigator outright as he inched closer to the person, “So you also know that I cannot trust your kind readily and without heavy reason.”
TalOS watched as the Psyker’s eyes widened and his being began to shake. It was like a thousand ideas and thoughts began to rush behind the psyker’s human eyes that were held back.
Lawrence looked at TalOS with fear within his gaze,<span class="mu-i"> “Did you hear their whispers?”</span>
TalOS felt a moment unlike any other upon those words, “Once. Once I did.”
