The Webway gate had stumped Boss Slick, but it also gave Ovisus and her companions pause.
After wiping out the Drukhari who had boarded their ship, Ovisus had indeed made a prophecy. In it, she had seen a troubled road ahead of them, one fraught with bloody battles.
But Hols's presence prevented Ovisus from clearly seeing the course of fate. Hols was like a black hole, sucking in all the threads of fate.
Out of concern for the Ulthwé Craftworld, the Flames of Vengeance had still traveled to a waypoint on the Craftworld's route and waited there for several days... yet there was no sign of it.
An Aeldari Craftworld followed a regular schedule. Even a delay would never stretch to several days. Prophecy was part of Aeldari life, and unless necessary, every Aeldari acted in accordance with it.
The first to grow anxious were the ordinary Aeldari warriors aboard the Flames of Vengeance. They had suffered heavy casualties in the boarding battle a few days earlier, and almost all of them were awaiting treatment.
The Ulthwé Craftworld was also their home, so they were the most anxious about anything happening to it. As their leader, Yriel of the Malan'tai Craftworld was naturally anxious as well.
The Ulthwé Craftworld was his second home, too, and many of Malan'tai's people lived aboard it. If anything happened to the Ulthwé Craftworld, his people would become refugees once again.
As luck would have it, the Flames of Vengeance received a guidance signal that would allow it to open a Webway gate leading to the Ulthwé Craftworld.
"This signal could be a trap, just like the Reaper Host's earlier attack on the Flames of Vengeance. It's a trap meant to lead us to our deaths." Parker Pan was the most strongly opposed to opening