#erda

"You don't understand it, at all. When a mortal loses their soulmate, it's damaging enough. But a primarch? Pure, utter madness."

"Corvus was fine."

"Corvus had the help of his people, before being plucked into your wars."

"Why would you make them this way?"

"Neoth, I only made them capable of love, they were always meant to have souls."

"Magnus is screaming at the walls, tearing them to shred, trying to find her."

"...I made them capable of love, you made them stronger in everything. Including stronger in the soul. Agatha's loss is a wound that may never heal in him."

"He wishes it was him."

"I'm sorry, Neoth."

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Neoth was watching her across the field, as Horus' body dropped from her hands. Lizzie(temp name again) met his horrified gaze. He had told her, Sanguinis had told her, Horus was always meant to die at the hands of his father.