01:29The Faceless Void. An ignominious end. Death is coming. Even now he waits at your door. Measure your next steps with care, Inquisitor.
01:47My thanks, Gaius Andor. You have served the Emperor as we all must. This cruel universe will not remember your name. But trust that I shall.
02:17What did he see, Lord?
02:21The same as the others.
02:26Burn it. Burn everything.
02:47Burn it. Burn it. Burn it. Burn it. Burn it.
03:17action cannot be seen to conclusion. Can they not? The Eldari believe so. You still hold that
03:24those Xenos and their witch seers would help us? We have an enemy in common. That has not prompted
03:30them to kindness before. True enough. A thought for tomorrow. Today we can be certain of this.
03:38If we do not leave for Terra soon, we should be late for your investiture. There is time yet.
03:44They can hardly begin the ceremony without me. Inquisitor Arturo has docked. He's waiting
03:52for you in the receiving chamber. He's come to escort you to Terra. Is he alone? No, he has
04:03a retinue of four. I'll need my effects. Have Gutter and the others meet us there. You're
04:09expecting trouble. Wake Turk and reset his kill count.
04:14Greetings and welcome.
04:35It is good to see you, my old friend.
04:38Old friend? It feels like yesterday we were wasting our evenings with Amersack and Dice.
04:49It was a century ago. And now, you stand on the precipice of greatness. Investiture. On terror, no less.
04:59Terror, no less. Bureaucracy comes for us all, in the end.
05:06You shouldn't have come. You knew that someone would. Eventually.
05:12And the investiture? Is this just the cover you needed to board my vessel?
05:18It's as real as anything else. But what difference does it make? You know, then.
05:25About your obsession with the Tarot? About the Eldari? Yes. I know. We almost died at Antioth Arturo. The arch-enemy knew our every move. We handed them a hundred worlds. Billions died. Even with your limited psychic ability.
05:47Tell me you cannot still hear their screams. There was nothing more we could have done. But what if we could have? What if we knew?
05:58We are not gods. We have only the certainty of the moment. Only the Emperor can define the future.
06:06And yet, he has given us the foresight to wield such tools as might.
06:11We cannot stack the deck, Kiyomoro. We must play the hand we are dealt. Very well.
06:21No!
06:34Damn you, Kiyomoro!
06:40You invite ruin!
06:43You've come to see it done!
06:45Someone must stand in your way!
06:48Someone must stand in your way!
07:01Must it be you?
07:03Who else?
07:20I wish you'd understood.
07:24I don't know.
07:54It seems you're not the face of death today.
08:24Turk, now!
08:44I don't know.
09:14I don't know.
09:44I don't know.
09:49I don't know.
09:58What shall I do with her?
10:12Take her to the cell.
10:15I don't know.
10:20Who sent you to kill me?
10:40Who sent you to kill me?
10:44I will not ask again.
10:49Cellular inhibitors.
11:00I wonder, am I the first to wear them?
11:04Who?
11:05I did not come here to kill you.
11:09This tells a different story.
11:12You cannot break me.
11:25Many have claimed as much before.
11:29It is never the many.
11:32It is the single crack that topples the walls of empires.
11:38I do not fear you, assassin.
11:42You will not leave this chamber alive.
11:45Like the hundreds of others I have interrogated, you will tell me your truths and beg for release in death.
11:54Yes.
11:55Yes.
11:56Your deeds roll before you like the smoke of corpse pyres.
12:01You, Inquisitor, are by every account a hard man.
12:07A capable man.
12:09A capable man.
12:10A man whose cruelty is matched only by his arrogance.
12:16But...
12:17The tarot cards.
12:20You want answers.
12:25You want answers.
12:36For all the hardships you have endured.
12:39For all your training and resolve.
12:43For all of your might.
12:45Did you ever consider that in this universe of horrors, there could be something worse?
12:55You stand unsteadily on that pulpit.
12:59I am not an acolyte or some unblooded initiate.
13:03For almost two hundred years I have stared down the darkness.
13:08Yes.
13:10Heretics.
13:11Aliens.
13:12Demons.
13:13You have faced them all.
13:18But what of a child?
13:19What of a child orphaned by war?
13:30What if need and instinct drove that child to kill?
13:35To master what they must?
13:37What if death was the only companion the child ever knew?
13:50What if this child was plucked from their world as you were?
13:56But instead of the hallowed halls of the Scholar Progenium, they were taken by far harsher masters.
14:11What if these monstrous teachers cut away whatever humanity remained in the child and left behind nothing but a weapon?
14:38You've spent your life trying to avoid death.
15:05But its child is here now.
15:09You are a lethal thing.
15:12That fact I do not deny.
15:15But you, like all the rest, have failed.
15:20Have I?
15:22Then where is your armor?
15:25As I said, Inquisitor, I did not come here to kill you.
15:34As I said, Inquisitor, I did not come here to kill you.
15:37For all that you see and have seen, you are blind to an obvious truth, that here, where you see most in control, you are also at your most vulnerable.
15:53My mission was simple. To bring you here. To have you sit there, across from me, the famed interrogator in the chair of his office. Lure. Witness. I came to play both roles, and I did not need to parse the schemes of fate to do it.
16:23To be continued...
16:53You should have paid more attention to the tarot readers you burned like sump trash. Hubris is the weapon the fool uses to cut his own throat.
17:13To be continued...
17:15To be continued...
17:19To be continued...
17:23To be continued...
17:48Did you get what you wanted?
17:50Yes.
17:52Good. Your investiture awaits.
17:55Well then, let us go and change the future.
18:17Let us go.
18:28Secondly, let us safely and change the future.
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