Wolf at Bay

[greyerrant]

Who: Garviel Loken and Meetra Surik
Where: Sagittarius Ward
Summary: The paranoid space marine gets talked into going to war.
Warnings: Wordiness. POWER VIOLENCE.
[Garviel stands atop a factory in the Saggitarius ward, by an exhaust vent, his armor heaving heavily as he gasps for air, having clambered up it to escape the scorpions. To escape everyone. For the first time in his life, his morale has broken. A warrior that has faced off against Demigods, Titans, and the darkness of the Warp itself has run. He looks at his bolter, at his combat knife. And for a moment... he contemplates his dishonor. Such a manifest sin. How can he expiate it? How can he stand by with his brother watching. His brother.... For another astartes stands with the last loyal son tonight, a taller figure in green plate, watching over the shuddering form of the Silent Wolf. He doesn't do anything, just watches Loken in agony, unable to save his friend as Loken was once unable to save him. For he is just another part of Garviel. ]

Comments

[echo_of_a_jedi]

The Exile was something of an expert on Force Bonds, the connections that formed between two people in moments of strong emotion or danger. Particularly, on how easily she formed these subtle connections to other people, and on how they could frequently lead her to do things that she was sure were incredibly bad ideas.

On the other hand, there's no way venturing out into the supernaturally frightening vista of the scorpion-and-lunatic-filled Hinoto-Ri was any more stupid than returning to Malachor V had been, right?

Armed with the knowledge that she was dumber in the past, Meetra made her way to the Sagittarius Ward, where she could practically hear the pain of one of the many people she'd made an unconscious connection to. Thus, she arrived silently to see the anguished space marine and his ghostly memory once again.

She cleared her throat and approached.