“Stand by, Hexen. I am… concluding a sensitive matter.”
Heinrix panted, the lighter of his mismatched eyes fixed on Marazhai as he failed to stop a frown, a pleasured whimper staked in discomfort. He then arches with a silent, teeth-clenched wince. He tried again, focusing on the cold, hard authority he was supposed to embody. “This is Interrogator van Calox. Stand by, Hexen. I am… concluding a sensitive matter.”
The vox crackled again, Hexen’s voice cutting through the static, tinny and utterly oblivious to the drama unfolding in the chamber. “Understood, Interrogator. But the matter is urgent. The cargo manifests from the Xylos transfer require your authorization cipher to be sealed. Without it, the records remain open, and Lord Aurastor was… explicit… about discretion.”
Heinrix squeezed his eyes shut. Of course. A cipher. Something that required memory, precision. Marazhai seemed to sense the shift, the new layer of pressure, as he shifted his weight, a subtle, deliberate movement that made Heinrix’s legs tremble.
Some heretical, defiant, buried part of him wished to declare that he was… servicing a superiour asset.
“The cipher…” Heinrix gasped out-fingers on the panel- trying to focus, to pull the string of characters from his memory. He could feel Marazhai’s claw tracing the line of his spine, slow and deliberate. “…stand by.”
“Did you say you are transmitting, Lordship?” Hexen’s voice was laced with strain. “Vox is unstable on this channel. There is… interference.”
“No,” Heinrix gritted out, his forehead pressed hard against the cold plasteel. The ‘interference’ was the sound of his own ragged breathing, the low growl of pleasure from the Drukhari behind him. He needed to end this.
Hiiiii so with the Cast of Incredible Characters expanding and evolving, I was wondering where Silvanus falls between Saren and Origen, do you think could tell me more about him, and him in the context of this entire dynamic? I ask nicely from my knees. You shared so little about him, including where he comes from and what's his exact relationship with Saren, and it's like a black hole whenever I come back to the entire Saren/Calix/Origen situationship, please I need to know where the man in the mask falls there. Will Saren lose him too. Did he ever have him at all. So many questions eating at me please help I beg
me: pores 100 hours into developing the main cast for a short everyone: ok but the guy in the mask tho?? who’s that in the back?? who is he. can you tell me about mask boy (affectionate btw)
Silvanus van Cassian serves as the Interrogator for one of Origen Thule’s most beloathed rivals. His loyalty, however, is not a matter of principle, but of cold pragmatism. He is a weapon, forged for a single purpose—to bring death to the enemies of the Imperium—and he attaches himself to the hand that can wield him most effectively.
Being almost obsessively direct and single-minded, he observes the power a Rogue Trader like von Aurastor wields: the authority to circumvent inefficient bureaucracy and solve problems with brutal, immediate celerity. For a man who not only accepts but relishes his role as the “attack dog,” the choice becomes simple. Though he rarely speaks, he is always listening, and Aurastor’s rhetoric of pure, unhindered results is the most compelling argument he has ever heard.
the most dangerous part isn’t the accusation, but the quiet, academic curiosity that precedes it.
krzchn:
- What is the blade for?
- All in good time.
