Katya

Cowboy AU!

I still remember the first time I stepped onto a ranch. Uncle Seb called me over and whispered, "Come on, while Kimi isn't looking," and led me to the pen with the red bulls. Kimi, his husband, couldn't stand anyone messing with those animals.

"Look how huge he is!" I gasped.

Then Seb suddenly jumped onto the fence and started imitating a bull — fingers to his head, snorting through his nose.

I got so scared — what if that thing charged at us? But the bull just gave us a heavy, long look and went back to chewing. I let out a breath.

Ugh those two… 🧊&🔥 !!!

‘Look at me,’ ordered Sanguinius. His heart tightened in his chest and a very specific kind of sorrow gripped him as Alotros slowly obeyed.

The primarch saw the trails of dried blood visible from Alotros’s nostrils, his ears, the corners of his reddened eyes. His lips, his chin, the exposed flesh of his neck, all were wet with the blood he had been patiently drinking, mouthful by mouthful.

Sanguinius knew that it was already too late, but he could not go on without trying.

He offered his hand. ‘My son,’ he began. ‘Step back, if you can. Step back from the abyss and return to us. I will save you.’…>

— Fear to Tread by James Swallow (The Horus Heresy, Black Library)

The Rogue Trader, who pays his taxes and feeds the voidsmen: «You sleep in the sealed compartment tonight.»