"Heh. A pack of the False Emperor's dogs, and you dare attack the great Lord of the Stars."
Kanas still held the "lamb spine" made from Shino in his hand. Looking down at the corpses of more than a dozen dead Space Marines, he sighed with emotion.
"Chapter Master Shino!" A shrill roar came from outside the door.
Kanas raised his head toward the sound and saw a figure radiating an eerie blue glow charge into the hall. His uncovered face wore an expression of utter disbelief as he stared sorrowfully at the lamb spine in Kanas's hand.
"Heh. So there was one fish that slipped through the net. A psyker, apparently. No wonder he went undetected."
When Kanas saw the Chapter Librarian rush in and sensed the psychic fluctuations pouring from him, he understood why the radar detector in his helmet had failed to find him. Powerful psykers could also block radar scans.
When Kanas had torn off Shino's head, the power helmet Shino wore had been completely shattered, revealing the face hidden beneath. That was why the Iron Wall Chapter's Librarian had been able to identify the person in Kanas's hand so easily.
The Librarian had never imagined that, during the brief time he had spent transmitting the intelligence gathered by the Chapter to the Imperium, Chapter Master Shino and the Chapter Guard would be slaughtered by these heretics.
This was a result the Librarian could not accept no matter what. Because he had failed to fight alongside his brothers from the very beginning, the Chapter Master and his battle-brothers had died. All of it had happened because of his own carelessness.
At that thought, the psychic fluctuations radiating from the Librarian grew even more violent. Eerie blue psychic lightning lashed out in every direction without conscious control,