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possible. Swiftly I transferred all ships that were preparing the assault on Cuthonia to a journey towards our father.”
“After a week of what might have been the most stable Warp Travel I had ever been on I arrived on none other than Terra. Upon an open field where I hear a tower is being built I kneeled before our Father and gave him my Oath of Moment to serve him.” The Primarch announced what was a powerful emotion overtook the commander.
TalOS held back any comment and allowed his brother to enjoy what must have been a grand memory. To render what was a talkative man silent surely meant it impacted him in such a great way.
But, did he just avoid TalOS’s question? TalOS knew for a fact that blood did not hold any calling by itself for TalOS never experienced it himself. The only time he ever felt a supernatural influence outside of the Warp was whenever he interacted with phenomena the Machine God caused.
Blood by itself did not have that power.
However that did bring TalOS to his next question, “You speak of another brother, Leman Russ. I take it he is another of the Emperor’s creations?”
“Yes, as he is one of our twenty brothers.” Announced Horus with a triumph, “He is the Primarch of the Sixth Legion Space Wolves and comes from a world known as Fenris. He is the second one of us to be found after myself, and you being the third.”
TalOS nodded to those words as he slowly gained understanding, “So most of our brothers are to be found after the machinations of those dreadful Gods.”
There was a flash of confusion on Horus before he smiled, “And Leman was the second. I wonder if any of our fellow brothers will be about as barbarous as him, for I think our following reunions will be quite fun. With your station here though TalOS I think the Emperor seeks to be a diverse assembly of sons instead of the simple men like Leman.”
“What is he like then? What you would call Barbarous and what I guarantee to be are two different things.” TalOS said to let Horus set the tempo of the conversation.
“Indeed, your standards are much higher I am sure.” Laughed the Commander, “I believe one of Russ’s crowning achievements is not the conquest of his world but making a mead capable of getting the Emperor and myself drunk for the first time in our lives.”
To those words TalOS smiled, “Achieving a state of intoxication with Abhuman Superiors? He might be more than a simple brute.”
