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In Wolves’ Clothing

Ian St. Martin

Fractured nightmare light undulated across the faceplate of Hrothgir, born of Fenris, as he charged into the throng of screaming fanatics. He snarled at a wall of frenzied cultists, their abused faces swathed in kaleidoscopic silks or flayed of skin, as they broke their twisted bodies against him. Hrothgir’s pack kept tight to either side of the Space Wolf, an unbreakable shield wall of storm-grey power armour cleaving through the rusted knives and gnashing teeth.

‘Forward brethren!’ roared Hrothgir, sweeping cultists apart with crushing blows from his war maul. ‘Our time to strike is now!’

The Vlka Fenryka had sailed into the Eye like a needle lancing corruption from a boil, hounding a fiend from one of the Traitor Legions and his degenerate rabble across the light of toxic stars. The Wolves of Fenris had run him to ground beneath the skies of this daemon world, goading him into a martial exchange his vanity was incapable of resisting.

Once, Hrothgir’s prey had been a warrior of the vaunted III Legion, a peerless swordsman of the Emperor’s Children. He had epitomised the martial prowess and ruthless pursuit of perfection that had swept out to reconquer the galaxy during the time the Allfather walked among mortals.

Like all of his Legion, the fires of the Heresy had seared away any nobility and honor from him, and what remained collapsed into decadence and debauched sorcery. For ten millennia he had reaved across the Imperium and the madness of the warp, until he now stood before Hrothgir and his pack upon the mire of this planet within the Eye. Hubris was the enduring trait of the traitor Space Marine, and as the warriors of the rout cut through the multitude of his wretched devotees to reach him, he could not resist indulging in the bloodshed.

‘You are known by many names,’ Hrothgir boomed, leveling his war maul at the waiting champion of Chaos. ‘Scion of Chemos. Fulgrim’s Champion. Soulthief. Champion of the Fell Powers. But to me, wretched one, you are only prey!’

The traitor smiled and leapt into the fray. He had lost nothing of his martial prowess throughout the millennia. With a silver blade and daemon-possessed lash, the fallen Angel of Death danced into Hrothgir’s pack, a whirling hurricane of feints and precision blows.

Aelfar – known to his packmates as Claw of the East Winds – fell first, bifurcated from collar to hip. The thread of Hama Crow-Song was cut next, run through even as the daemonic lash pinned his arms to his sides. Three more of Hrothgir’s pack would meet their doom in the next frenzied heartbeats.

‘Our prey is a duelist,’ snarled Hrothgir. ‘Let us deny him his comfort!’ His pack howled their assent as they rushed the traitor champion as one.

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