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We may not have much time.’  \nThe Knight Errant quickens his pace at the urging of the former Mechanicumadept. It has been three minutes since Tharcadian Semuel entered Ison’s chamber within the fortress watch-post to tell him of the shuttle, and only five minutes since the craft had been forced to land.  \n‘What is it, Semuel?’ he asks calmly. ‘What has been returned to us?’The red warning lights flashing in the hangar bay reflect from the metal that makes up more than half of Semuel’s body, his devotion to the cult of Mars apparent in every aspect of his appearance. He regards Ison through the slit of his visor, perma-grafted over his eyes with rivets bonded to flesh. Ison thinks it gives Semuel the aspect of an underhive thug or fringe world criminal, but nothing could be further from the truth.  \nSemuel is a good man – an honourable man, as Ison well knows.  \n‘My mind is open to you, Lord Ison. Take the information that you need.’Lord. The word almost makes Ison wince. Once, long ago, he would have revelled in all the honorifics lavished upon him by mortal servants. Since childhood, his gifts have elevated him above other men and, by virtue of being born on a civilised world, he has not been made a pariah nor shunned or cast out for them.  \nBut now he has made himself an outcast, even from his own former Legion.‘That is selfless of you, tech-priest. But I would not put you through that sort of intrusion unless it were absolutely vital. Besides, it seems we are–’  \nIson stops dead in his tracks.  \n‘Holy Terra!’ he gasps. ‘Is that…Is that a…Space Marine?’  \nThe thing before Ison resembles a legionary no more than a piece of parchment folded to form wings might resemble a Thunderhawk. What the torn, bleeding remains do look like is meat – crudely butchered meat, left out to rot and spoil. Blood trickles down the side of the ammunition crates, upon which the Space Marine has been placed, from weeks-old wounds that refuse to clot. The weak beating of a secondary heart visible through the deep gouge in his ribs is the only other sign that he yet lives.  \nSemuel’s fear is apparent, even in the artificial modulation of his vocaliser unit.‘What in the name of the Omnissiah could have done this? Xenos perhaps? I’ve heard tell that the greenskins are a ferocious and unrelenting–’  \n‘No ork did this,’ Ison assures him. ‘I have seen the damage wrought by their kind. It is brutal, barbaric and without mercy. The violence they employ when battling a foe is without equal anywhere in the galaxy, and the damage they can inflict upon a body is beyond imagining.’  \n‘Not that I doubt you, Lord Ison, but based on what you’ve just told me…what exactly is it that makes you think this isn ’t the handiwork of orks?’  \nIson’s reply is barely a murmur. ‘Because he’s still alive.’ He rubs away dried blood from the stricken Space Marine’s torso with his gauntlet, and traces the outline of one of the numerous deep cuts. ‘You said that this was a message, Semuel. What made you say that?’  \n‘The wounds. Some of them look like words.’  \n‘And you thought orks did this?’  \nA series of clicks come from the tech-priest’s cranial implants as he accesses stored data files. ‘From my understanding of greenskin culture, crude pictograms are the basis of their language.’  \nSemuel gestures to the body, blink-clicking pict captures for later reference.‘There. Just below the throat.’  \nFresh blood oozes from a puncture above the collarbone, and Ison forms a dam with his other hand to prevent it from flooding the wound. ‘This isn’t how orks operate. They don’t send messages. They possess neither the intellect nor themalice to keep a prisoner on the threshold between life and death, carve his body with sigils and then send him back where he came from…’  \n‘I don’t think they sent him back,’ Semuel replies, straightening. ‘I think he","cbCaiaOPP7E2Pvtv","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaOPP7E2Pvtv","pdf",965144,17,"English","# The Watcher\n## Arrival and interrogation\n## Interpreting wounds as a message\n## Recognition of Fenrisian and Sixth Legion link","[{\"question\":\"What prompts Ison and Semuel to investigate the returned shuttle?\",\"answer\":\"Semuel informs Ison about the shuttle’s landing and what has been returned, leading them into Ison’s chamber and then to the hangar where the Space Marine is found injured.\"},{\"question\":\"What evidence leads Semuel to believe the wounds are more than random damage?\",\"answer\":\"Semuel observes that some wounds look like words, and he notes that greenskin culture typically uses crude pictograms as a language basis.\"},{\"question\":\"How do they determine the meaning of the dying warrior’s spoken word?\",\"answer\":\"Ison recognizes the utterance instantly as Fenrisian, and translates it as “nightfall,” linking the message to the context of a specific Legion shuttle.\"}]","The Watcher - C Z Dunn - A Black Library Publication | PDF",1791342374,26]