>>96383006
Yeah, I can kinda see that. The motion blur doesn't quite sell the forward motion of a kick.

Anyway, the story continues from >>96307505

>It came to pass in the waning days of M41 that Salafié was called to a meeting in the office of Rogue Trader Cassius von Nassau-Mendoza. She imagined it was to scold her for some misdeed or other, as such affairs usually were. Yet, this meeting was to herald matters altogether more fateful: Just hours earlier, Seneschal Lang had returned from his secret mission to the Senatorum Imperialis in the company of a Legate of the High Lords of Terra.

>When she arrived, Salafié found the Rogue Trader standing solemnly just past the threshold. The Seneschal, with his wispy white hair and dour black coat, ushered the Priestess past a squad of troopers in clad in gleaming armor of unfamiliar pattern to where the Legate sat at the Rogue Trader's own desk, a man in the grey vestments of the Administratum, but with his face hidden behind a mask of richly engraved silver.

>"Art thou Salafié Al-Faiz, formerly of the Adeptus Mechanicus, daughter of the late Baron Lucien Al-Faiz of Hydraphur?"

>The Priestess hesitated. What was this? For a moment, dread tugged at her heart and she feared that she had been betrayed to the Inquisition. Yet this hardly had the feel of an arrest, the troops standing at ease with weapons sheathed. And so, Salafié answered simply, "I am she."

>The Legate dragged his pen across a name in the ledger before him and withdrew a scroll from behind the desk, extending it to the Priestess. "Know then, that, by the grace of the Golden Throne and the authority vested in this document, you are hereby summoned and given safe conduct to Holy Terra to receive pardon for the charge of heresy and commutation of the sentence of death. Ave Imperator."