[VOLLUS II] [2.32 MILLION YEARS IN THE PAST]
[FOUNDATION TIME: 563,043/192/02/30]
[FROM THE THOUGHTS AND WORDS OF THE ANATHEMA]

*MALIFUX AWOKE, SCRAMBLING TO HIS FEET, A MYTHIC SPEAR THROUGH HIS CHEST*

*"What-"*

*'...what just happened? I cannot remember?'*

*'What trick have I been subject to? ... This is no trick...'*

*'Where am I... What is this place?'*

*MALIFUX LOOKED AROUD. THIS PLACE WAS BARREN. EMPTY. DEVOID OF ANYTHING BUT RED ROCK, SAND, AND DUST.*

*'This is not Mokosen... This is not my Fortress...'*

*"...Am I Banished?"*

*'No... My son, Ri'iiko?'*

*'A heretic...?'*

*'What is this... This spear in my chest- What is this... Agony?'*

*'...No.'*

*'...NO-!'*

*'I REJECT THIS.'*

*'No- What... -what is this memory?'*

*'-THAT UNCHASTE COHORT OF FILTH! THEY STOLE MY SON-!'*

*"Ri'iiko- ...Defied me?"*

*MALIFUX LOOKED ABOUT HIS SURROUNDINGS, HIS EYES INTERROGATING THE LANDSCAPE AROUND HIM, NO SMALL NUMBER OF HIS FOLLOWERS WERE WITH HIM. NONE SPOKE, BUT THEY ALL WERE CONFUSED OR LOST. HIS EYES CAUGHT THE SPEAR IN HIS CHEST FROM THE EDGES OF HIS VISION...*

*HE GAZED DOWN AT THE SPEAR, PIERCING THROUGH HIS TORSO. THE ORNATE BLADE WAS LIKE A PEARL-WHITE QUARTZ, GLEAMING PEARLESCENT IN THE ALIEN SUNRISE... HE KNEW THE HANDWORK OF THE BLADE ALL TOO WELL...*

*HIS BODY TWITCHED AND SHIVERED, A CHURNING RAGE BOILED OVER IN HIS SOUL...*

***"-GARDENERRR!!!!"***