The Emperor’s Angel of Death

After a long time, Sosiun finally brought Veronica to the sofa, who then sat sideways on his lap, gently pinching his cheeks with both hands.

"What's wrong? Who made our Lord Commander of the Imperium angry?"

Sosiun squeezed out a smile, his left hand stroking Veronica's hair.

"After all, I almost lost the most important thing."

Veronica tilted her head.

"I guess, Okam told you?"

Sosiun sighed softly.

"Right now, I don't even want to hear his name... I'm just glad you're okay, otherwise I really don't know..."

Sosiun didn't say the rest of the sentence, because he didn't know what would happen if something happened to Veronica.

"Alright, aren't I fine? What's past is past, don't dwell on it. But the situation at the time was really a bit strange..."

Then, Veronica recounted everything that happened in the Blackstone Fortress in a relaxed tone.

During the process of listening, Sosiun first frowned, then looked surprised. When he heard that Russ had stabbed Veronica with his weapon several times, he showed anger. But when he heard about Corax's appearance, he was completely stunned.

After Veronica finished speaking, his whole person could be described as having mixed feelings.

"What on earth is Leman Russ doing? But Corax's appearance is not unexpected. After all, the appearance of Cassat, the 'traitor' of the Eighth Legion, was actually a hint. I also guessed that this primarch was in the Maelstrom. I didn't expect that he would be the one to protect you... Could all of this be related to the Deceiver? Or is it related to Jaghatai Khan? Do the disappeared primarchs still have contact with each other?"

Although Russ's attack on the Eternal Queen didn't seem unreasonable at first glance, after all, the Imperium's attitude towards aliens is unconditional annihilation, the timing of his appearance, the attitude he showed, and all the signs indicated that this matter was abnormal. Combined with what Okam said, that someone might have provided Leman Russ with information, Sosiun always felt that there was a huge conspiracy hidden behind this matter, and the core of the conspiracy was Veronica.

And thinking carefully, from the time he went to Commorragh to save Veronica, the primarchs appeared one after another. Does this also imply something?

Also, the disappearance of Kaien, Saul, Sevatar, and others for so long, is it also related to all of this?

Was the sudden change of the grey marrow in the derelict ship also a coincidence?

So many clues and people are like threads, intertwined in a way he couldn't understand, forming a huge ball of thread, tightly wrapping the core of the matter.

"Spacing out again? You must be thinking about those conspiracies and plans again... Sosiun, I've actually thought a lot too. I think it's time for us to reduce our reliance on those external forces. We need to use our own ideas, our own plans, our own hands to protect our own future and children."

Sosiun nodded subconsciously.

"That's true... Huh?"

Suddenly, he reacted, with a look of confusion on his face.

Veronica, with a sly expression that said "You'll never guess," put her arms around his neck and whispered into his ear:

"We're having a baby."

In an instant, all of Sosiun's muscles tensed up, his eyes widened, and even his brain crashed, asking a very silly question.

"Where's the baby?"

"Silly!"

Veronica pinched his face.

"Of course it's in my belly! Oh my, you look like a child. I'm pregnant, you big dummy!"

"This—"

Although Sosiun's body gradually relaxed, his whole head was in a daze. It was common knowledge that Astartes had no reproductive ability, let alone with an alien like Eldar. That would simply sweep all current biology into the trash heap.

Veronica grabbed his left hand and guided it to her lower abdomen.

"Lady Lorena has already confirmed it, it's about to take shape."

Sosiun pursed his lips. He still felt like he was in the clouds. The impact of this news on his worldview was no less than the first time he saw the Deceiver.

Children, offspring...

He thought these would always be irrelevant to him. Therefore, although his love for Veronica transcended the boundaries of the Astartes, it did not affect him in completing his mission.

But now, these seemed to have changed.

At some point, he seemed to really feel a kind of throbbing connected by blood in his palm.

But what would be born from the combination of humans and Eldar? What's more, he was an Astartes, and he seemed to have hidden powers that did not belong to the mortal world. What form would the life conceived by the combination of the two be?

Countless thoughts raced through his mind, but none could bring him a definite answer.

At this moment, Veronica's small hand touched his cheek.

"Aren't you happy?"

Sosiun came back to his senses, then put his arms around her waist, so that their bodies were close together, and whispered:

"Thank you, Veronica. It's not that I'm not happy, it's just that I never thought I would have offspring, and I never thought that one day I would have the identity of a father. All of this is too sudden for me."

"Don't mention you, I was also very surprised, but isn't this the crystallization of our love that transcends racial boundaries? And don't you think, my husband, that a lonely galaxy would be too lonely if there were only two of us? If humans and Eldar can't accept our marriage in the end, at least we still have our child."

Sosiun heard this, didn't say anything, just lowered his head and gently kissed his wife's lips.

After a long time, the two separated, Sosiun gently stroked his wife's face, and whispered:

"Veronica, I will protect you and our child with my life. Such a thing will not happen a second time."

Veronica blinked and smiled sweetly, and said:

"Then what if Leman Russ comes again?"

"Then I will beat him to his knees, beat him until he submits. If he still doesn't submit, I will chain him up."

"Haha, aren't you afraid he'll go to his father to complain?"

"I'm in the right on this matter, I'm not afraid of him complaining."

The two joked for a while, and Sosiun's mood improved a lot. At this time, Veronica suddenly thought of something and frowned.

"There's another thing... I actually came back a few days ago. The day before you came back, a mysterious blind bald head appeared in the yard."

"Ah? Blind bald head?"

"Ah, all golden, not wearing shoes, only wearing an orange robe, like some kind of priest or monk, with his eyes covered with cloth strips, and many strange circuit engravings on his body. I don't know how he got in, the security system wasn't triggered. I went over and asked him who he was, but he didn't say anything, just made a strange gesture, probably holding his fists in front of his chest, holding the index finger of his left hand with his right fist, and then nodded three times, and then turned and left. Very inexplicable."