>>96460140
>Annelid Veyra writhed under the chaos sorcerer’s iron grip. The woman's taloned fingers, crooked and avian, clamped her skull like a vice. Pressure spiked behind Annelid’s eyes as if her brain were being forced out through bone. She screamed as she felt her mind sloughing away in ragged strips. Tendrils of aether wormed through her thoughts, burning holes where memories had been. Her childhood, her prayers, the small, private hopes she nursed in the dark; all gone, replaced by shrieking madness that was not her own. Her thick tongue lolled out of her mouth. Her eyes rolled white. Her long frame spasmed helplessly. Her body betrayed her, sluicing urine across the deckplates in a steaming arc. In that last lucid flicker, she cursed the sorceress, a fellow mutant, one of her own kind. The bitterness of that treachery cut deeper than anything.