>>5548533"Is anyone else gonna bring up that all of our tattoos were glowin and not just Koli's?" Meerah says loudly.
"Koli?" Wakatelaho says with an odd laugh and amused voice.
"We've known the Cap longer than ya. Spirits, I've slept in the same bed as him. Yana is his sister and has called him knucklehead and oaf a few times. Deliah has called im worse" Meerah says and your sons look a bit flummoxed.
"Father before we give this beast it's due rest- as it was a worthy fight- we do have a few questions also." The Master Gunnery Sergeant says as the others nod. And you shake your head.
"We are not going to be cruel cause it's easy lads. Ya do things the right way. And together. Come on." You say hopping on top near the skull plate, and ya help everyone up.
"We gonna divide the meat equally among the village, we will make weapons of her teeth and spikes. Armor out of her scales, oils and resins out of her organs and use her bones for bonedust and pigments. Nothin goes to waste. Not even if the greens want it. She is one of the great beasts, she deserves better than a common pest." You say and the girls nod, and your sons look very skeptical but agree. And in a quick motion you all stab on the skull plate where the brain stem is. You check her eyes. The light is gone. She is dead.
"Father- we- I have questions. I studied briefly to be an apothocary, I have no knowledge of this beasts anatomy despite having slain others like it before- yet suddenly I not only felt a rush of strength, adrenelin and other factors- I also knew the precise anatomy of this beast- exactly where on the hind leg to strike on the upper quarter to disable her. I saw everyone here act with precise timing, that while normal for us- as Astartes, not so normal while cooperating with non astartes. Further, we acted as one, with equal speed and strength as if we all knew precisely how to pin down this creature and defeat it at once as if we had been fighting these things all our lives despite not seeing it until today. Additionally- and this is something that has been confusing me since I have met not only the islanders and your honor guard, but you. We Astartes, fill most men and baseline humans with transhuman dread. They see us and it clouds their judgement, I have seen a grown man piss himself in fear and collapse just because two of us ran past him. Here, this reaction- doesn't happen, in fact they are happy to banter with us like we are locals. Around you- I have heard how other Astartes, act around their primarchs. They bow, they act like servile, like a biological trigger of enforced loyalty is implanted." He says and sighs as ya honor guard looks to them and looks to you, and this does seem important. He then nods to his brothers and is if they have their own silent cant he speaks again.
