Old Friends

Within the shadows, Qin Xa emerged slowly in casual clothes, his hands tucked into his pockets.

A smile nearly broke across his face.

After stepping out of the shadows, Qin Xa slowly came to a stop beneath the primarch's gaze and leaned against the wall.

Angron still wore a joyful smile, but he did not immediately rush forward to embrace his foster father. His expression shifted instead.

Facing his foster father, the primarch thought of many things and felt many emotions.

There was longing and joy, along with sorrowful and burdensome matters he wished to confide.

When the Immaterium storms raged, planets and star systems across Greater Nuceria lost contact with one another. Astropaths across countless worlds died in large numbers, causing psychic disasters.

At the time, Angron recalled what his foster father had said about the Horus Heresy and worried greatly.

Fortunately, he had prepared for that day long ago. During the period when the storms ravaged the Immaterium, interrupting warp travel until the Pharos Beacon was activated, not a single industrial world suffered famine due to an inability to sustain itself.

The World Eaters civil administrators deployed throughout the various star systems and planets had also proven reliable enough. They stabilized the situation and calmed the people.

That had been worry and fear.

Then, in order to learn of his foster father's condition, Angron attempted to use the power of his essence. Only then had he seen the circumstances of his primarch brothers and foster father, and the weight in his heart had finally lifted.

That had been a fright without disaster.

Then came Nuceria and Ultramar's union, forming an alliance in defense and governance. During that period, an enormous number of affairs had needed handling.

That had been burdensome work.

There had also been many other matters,