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Furies of Tzeentch
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * They called 'em paper planes, and it made me laugh in the briefing when they told me that and showed me a picture. They looked at me a bit funny then, sorta sad like. Didn't take long to figure out why they called 'em that. We were on patrol 'round the perimeter when we spotted a pack of 'em - floatin' up, maybe a hundred, hundred and fifty feet in the air. Not movin', just sittin' there - like they were waitin' for somethin'. They can't have been waitin' very long though, 'cause they weren't there a minute ago. We tightbeamed the boys back at base, let 'em know there were hostiles outside the containment zone, then we stayed and watched 'em for a while. Maybe a minute went past - no movement, no nothin, 'cept for maybe a faint humming sound that might have been comin' from up there, or coulda just been in my head, 'cept for the other guys on patrol heard it too. Then base got back to us and told us to engage. Course they did - ten patrolmen against a score of spooky alien death kites, what could go wrong. Well, turns out plenty could go wrong. Seemed as soon as MacBenn even thought about aimin' his lasgun at 'em, they were on the move. And by the Emperor, are they fast. They shot down outta the sky and it was like a watercolour paintin' - just streaks of it fallin' from the clouds - blue, green, silver. They weren't as big as they seemed up in the sky - maybe seven feet long. But every inch of 'em was like a razor. MacBenn was cut into four pieces before he even fell over. I'm not ashamed to say I legged it outta there. I got no doubt they coulda caught me if they tried, but they seemed to be happy enough to stay and slice the livin' hell outta the other boys. That's why they called 'em paper planes - on account of how they cut you to ribbons. Really puts things in perspective, it does. Spendin' the rest of my life stuck on this rock minin' promethium for 12 hours straight ain't half as bad as gettin' turned into confetti by those damn silver triangles. Wish they'd do somethin' about the food, though. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Posted: 3 Oct 2020
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