Garro had been completely petrified.
He had thought that after all these years—after fighting his way out of the desperate situation on Isstvan III, then being forced into the Warp and narrowly surviving—nothing could surprise him anymore.
After bringing news of the betrayal to Terra, he had become a Knight-Errant, carrying out all manner of highly classified missions for the Sigillite. What was left in this world that he had not seen?
But now, he had to admit that he really had never seen this before!
Emperor above, his gene-father had become his gene-mother!
Mortarion no longer concealed herself. She swept aside the gray robes draped over her body, revealing Terminator power armor modified by Techmarines.
Because of the changes to her body, her armor had needed to accommodate her distinctly feminine figure. Otherwise, it would have been utterly uncomfortable to wear.
"I came here specifically for you, Garro. Come with me."
"Leave this damned war and return to my side."
Garro wanted to answer, but the turmoil in his heart left him stammering. If he had not been mistaken, the Primarch had just used psychic power to open a Warp rift and arrive here.
Had not Mortarion hated Psykers more than anything, wishing she could hang and burn every witch in the galaxy? How had she become a Psyker herself?
Mortarion sensed the complicated emotions within her son, and she understood them. Even she herself had struggled to accept this fact.
Ever since escaping Grandfather's Plague Garden and repairing the strike cruiser Barbarrus' Sting in the Somnium Stars, she had once again fallen into turmoil and conflict.
In this war, she had lost her Legion, lost her identity as a man, lost her pure human bloodline, and even fully awakened her psychic talent.
Judging by her extensive experience hunting