Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

The chirping of birds sang on the branches, and the sunlight shone down from the canopy of the tree, turning into countless fragments and projected on her body. She sat there with her legs crossed, like a snow-white statue.

Horus walked over, came to the tree and placed the basket full of bread at her feet, then turned and left, leaving only Vito and her alone in the garden, with the sound of the wind blowing under the corridor. The wind chimes tinkled like a beautiful song in spring.

Vito looked at her, hesitated for a moment and then walked up. He stepped on the old-looking stone slabs and came to the foot of the tree, but kept looking at the tall pear tree.

"Lily, how is she? Is she okay?"

"Even if you face so many strange things and witness so many things, she is still the first person you want to ask?" the woman sitting under the tree said with a little jealousy, and her expression was unhappy. picked up the book in his hand.

Vito looked at the treetops and said again, "Is she okay?"

The woman glanced at him, then sighed regretfully, "Fortunately, I was injured but still alive, huh, even though we don't have the concept of death."

"Injured by Khorne?"

"What do you think? She took a knife for you, and I also took a knife for her." She said, showing her chest. On the snow-white breast, there was a striking, unhealed scar. scar.

Vito looked at the wound, and after a moment of silence, he sat on the bench next to her. She also moved to the side to make way for him. He sat down, smelled the fragrance of the bread basket nearby and said something.

"Thanks."

"Do you just want to say thank you?"

"Yes, Thanks."

She sighed again, and then she said nothing, and he didn't say anything either. Everything became quiet for a moment, leaving only the chirping of birds in spring, the rustling of trees, and the breeze blowing through the corridor under the eaves. echo.

He sat on the chair and seemed to be concentrating on the lines of the stone slabs under his feet, while she sat on the side, flipping through the book in her hand. The silence lasted for a while, and finally he spoke.

"What is everything here?" he said, and she turned another page.

"What you should have done."

"What I should have done?"

"Yes, you should have done it, you should have listened to me and overthrew the Emperor, and this is what your future will be after you do that."

"Hmph, how do I know you're not lying to me? An illusion? You are best at this."

"I won't lie to you, I promise."

"That's your answer."

"This is."

Silence, another long silence, Vito listened to the sound of turning pages of old books beside him, he glanced at the hair falling from his knees, the silver hair was as bright as pure silver.

He sighed, then looked at the wind chimes on a wall, "You didn't call me here to preach, right? You know."

"You won't listen. I know that. I didn't do it for that." She said and stopped turning the pages in her hand, her fingertips resting on a line of text.

"You have caused big trouble, Vitor. Khorne is furious. Nurgle is still angry after you burned the garden. Tzeentch is also preparing to play a game with you."

"Hmph, you still say this is not preaching?"

"That's not it," she said, and the sound of wind chimes came again from the side, and the chirping of birds was mixed in, echoing in Vito's ears.

The sun hit the back of his neck, giving him a warm feeling. It was a false sun, he knew, but it was still so warm, making him feel as if he had fallen asleep and never wanted to get up again.

"What is that?" he asked after a while, and she stopped and looked at him, "You have caused big trouble, my dear. Lily has to stay in the Demon Realm now. There is nothing we can do until she recovers. To protect you, so I thought."

"You're going to protect me? Huh, really? Do you think I need protection?"

"Those are three gods."

"According to you, am I not also a god?"

"Not quite."

Her voice echoed in the sound of bees flying by. Vito stared at the bench beside him, as if he was counting the lines on it carefully one by one, while she impatiently grabbed his arm.

"You can't deal with them. If Lily is not here, I can only frighten them. The three gods cannot act together. They will only come one by one. As long as I am here, they will not dare to do anything to you."

"I don't need it, Slaanesh."

"I told you, don't call me that name!" Her voice suddenly became loud, and for a moment all the sounds around her were silenced. After a while, she returned to normal.

"You know I don't like that name." Her voice was softer, as warm as the spring sunshine, but Vito did not look at her, looking at the face that would make anyone willing to dig it up just to see her face. She who sacrificed her soul with her own eyes.

They would give anything to gain her favor, their souls, the souls of a planet, or a sector, but Vito turned a deaf ear to her and just counted the stripes on the bench.

She also looked at the flowers on the side, and after a moment she stretched out her hand to the back of Vito's hand, but the latter suddenly withdrew his hand and stood up.

"Vito, stop being stubborn! You know you can't deal with them." She said, and Vito tilted his head, but did not look at her. "So what? They will kill me?"

"No, what's worse, they will imprison your soul and then torture you to make your life worse than death."

"Then why didn't you just let them do it? Or come along? You are an evil god, Slaanesh, why should I believe you? You were."

"Because I love you, you idiot." She said loudly, throwing away the book and standing up.

"I know you don't like me. You hate me and them for participating in the Horus Heresy. You hate me, hate me, and maybe want to kill me." Her purple eyes looked at him, and her silver hair melted into running water. Shining like silver.

She said and moved closer to him, reaching for his arm, "I don't ask you to forgive me, Vito. I never thought about it, but Lily can't be with you. Let me be by your side, okay? Just this once."

"You will drive my entire fleet mad, devour their souls, or cause warp storms."

"I will use an avatar, just like Lily. My main body will stay in the Demon Realm. You don't have to worry about this." She said and approached him, reaching out from the sun and approaching his arm, but just when she was about to touch it , but he suddenly took a few steps forward to widen the distance.

He walked under the arcade and stood there looking at the shadows and the swaying wind chimes. She stood under the tree looking at him and put her hand on the scar on her chest.

"Vito, Lily and I are one. I can feel her love for you and I love you too. You know, just this once, don't distance yourself from me."

"You don't understand love, Slaanesh, you don't understand at all."

"Then Lilith understands?" Slaanesh's voice suddenly sounded like thunder. The sunlight above Vito's head suddenly disappeared, and a cold wind blew around him. The treetops and flowers swayed and trembled, and the sound of wind chimes also sounded from the spring. The pleasant song turned into a shrill howl of a banshee.

Vito felt a strong emotional release behind him. Jealousy, resentment and desire appeared at the same time. They turned into spiritual power and distorted the dream world. The ground under his feet began to crack and tremble, as if the earth was about to collapse.

But suddenly it was over again, the sun was back, the birds were singing again, and he could smell the aroma of freshly baked bread wafting in the distance, and her sighs.

She stood under the sunny tree, turned around and looked at the top of the big tree, "I know you will never forgive me, you will not love me, you will only love Lily, but we are one person, and I am the same as her. .So, just this time, I will leave when Lily gets better or when the three of them have had enough fun, and I won’t stay for a moment longer.”

All the sounds in the garden were suppressed by the singing of birds, the wind chimes tinkled again, and the rustling sound was accompanied by swaying in the canopy of the trees.

The warm sunshine shone in the garden and also on the two of them. He stood in the shadow and didn't speak for a long time. She didn't say anything either. The two of them just stood in different places in silence, one under the tree. down, one under the eaves.

But after a long time, he sighed, a long sigh. He turned around and looked at her, "If you want me to agree, you have to listen to me and do whatever I tell you." , If I don’t ask you to do anything, just don’t do anything, can you promise?”

"I promise."

"Hmph, you agreed so quickly, but is the promise from the Slaanesh demon trustworthy?"

"At least it's not Tzeentch's guarantee, right?" she said with a smile, standing under the tree, with little bits of sunlight shining on her cheeks. "And this is my guarantee to you, not to anyone else."

Vito smiled bitterly, put his hands on his hips and sighed, "Okay, Slaanesh, that's it. In what capacity do you come to me? You can't come like this, right?"

"I know, I will choose a good identity. No one will notice, and no one will find out about your relationship with me." She said and walked over, the sun shone on her face, and her appearance was so beautiful that it was suffocating. .

She walked up to Vito, climbed up one hand on his shoulder, looked at him with purple eyes like a galaxy, and had a smile on her lips that could make any planetary governor abandon everything and worship her.

"But there's only one thing I can't promise you."

"What?"

"I will not let you call me Slaanesh, by my name, my true name."

He looked at her purple eyes, those eyes that made people look deep in silence for a long time, "Salish, no, Sarah."

"Very good, Vito." She said, hugging his neck, crawling up to his chest on tiptoes, and approaching him with expectant eyes.

"And one more thing."

"What?"

"Lily wants to have fun with you so that she can heal faster."

Vito looked at her with naked doubt in his eyes, "Really? She heals faster? Or is this her idea or yours?"

She smiled, leaned into his ear and whispered softly, "Does it make a difference? We are one person."

Vito was silent for a while, then raised his head and looked down into his purple eyes, "Here? On the grass?"

"Is there anything wrong? The sun is shining brightly here, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant. It's warm and pleasant. Isn't that what you say? In spring, everything is happy."

Vito saw the clothes slipping off, and under the sunlight, he saw the most perfect body in the galaxy.