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Description The Imperial Guard relief force marched through the city gates with crowds of the native inhabitants looking on. But there was little cheering or celebrating.
The grim-looking army was not the angels of salvation that the people had thought they would be. Rather, they were silent, lifeless beings that spared the people not even a single glance as they marched by. The peoples faces grew nearly as dreary as the soldiers masks as they realized that their saviors were not like angels, but more like walking corpses.

But through the crowd of bleak and cheerless faces, a bright and sunny one appeared.
'Why is everyone so afraid of them,' she thought, 'when they're here to save us? We should be thankful.'
She leaned over the side and reached out to the nearest passing soldier, holding one of the summer flowers she had gathered.

'These are for someone else, but you can have one.' she said cheerfully.
The soldier hesitated for a moment, looking at the gift being presented to him, then he moved back into formation. He didn't take it, but she was sure that he wanted to.
Her grandmother frantically pulled her back and began scolding her. She didn't listen, she just put the flower back with the rest and stepped back, her smile unchanged.


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AnnasStorybox [2020-05-23 19:40:20 +0000 UTC]

It somehow reminds me of the Gondorians marching out of Minas Tirith to retake Osgiliath.

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Metastability13 In reply to AnnasStorybox [2020-07-24 04:50:37 +0000 UTC]

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kaiser-34 [2019-09-27 02:02:12 +0000 UTC]

It maybe grim-dark but not hopeless
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtKMLi…

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CrimsonSpaceMarine [2019-09-10 23:50:25 +0000 UTC]

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SMGHunter16 [2019-08-13 17:47:12 +0000 UTC]

can we get a follow up picture of this grenadier shooting her in the forehead for ruining his parade?

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svr2000player [2019-06-01 07:06:14 +0000 UTC]

The way I see it your picture really capture the contrast between the despair a soldier often feels as they fight in grueling bloody conflicts, taking lives of fellow humans for the sake of their duty, and the happiness of seeing that despite all the horrible things they have seen and done, an innocent child still looks up to them as hero.

Touching.

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danielxcutter [2019-05-29 14:19:29 +0000 UTC]

*claps hands*

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JwwProd [2019-05-04 14:55:40 +0000 UTC]

I get aΒ Fahrenheit 451 vib from this.

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kokoda39 [2019-04-18 12:39:03 +0000 UTC]

He will die in the name of the Emperor.

On a planet that he has never heard of.

Against a foe that he has never seen before.

He will be a tool while he lives and a statistic when he is dead.

But for what it's worth, he will have this gift.

In the moment of his death, he will remember what he dead to protect.

And in the end he will remember her and smile.

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TacoVoodooDoctor In reply to kokoda39 [2021-05-28 17:47:31 +0000 UTC]

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WOLFBLADE111 In reply to kokoda39 [2021-04-06 02:41:50 +0000 UTC]

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godofwarlover [2019-03-01 08:39:10 +0000 UTC]

Even in the Grim Darkness of The Future, there is still honor and chivalry

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AlasterBoneman [2018-11-28 07:25:31 +0000 UTC]

great work. and I just watched arch Warhammer krig lore

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battlecruiser006 [2018-11-09 20:11:14 +0000 UTC]

So cute and sweet.

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narrva [2018-09-15 15:23:30 +0000 UTC]

This makes my heart ache a little with how poignant it is.Β  It really makes one feel for the insanely courageous Imperial Guard.

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jack2the7ripper [2018-09-11 18:54:39 +0000 UTC]

AmazingΒ 

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BanishedRabbit [2018-06-24 23:36:51 +0000 UTC]

Days later as the war reaches the city, that very same soldier is walking through the war torn remains of a hab block and he comes upon this girl once more, shot dead in a hallway, the flowers scattered across the ground next to her, covered in blood and dust, he stares emotionlessly at her corpse, remembering briefly that moment when she offered him one of her flowers.Β  He begins to reach down to take one of the flowers, and just as he's about to touch one, he remembers his duty, stands up and continues to walk down the darkened corridors, there is no room for weakness, there are more heretics to hunt.


I'm not a good writer, but that's more or less how I see things happening, 40K is dark as hell, for every act of innocence, there are countless acts of greed, treachery, and tragic events, afterall, that is the grim dark future that is Warhammer 40K.

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TacoVoodooDoctor In reply to BanishedRabbit [2021-05-28 17:51:14 +0000 UTC]

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123456789JD In reply to BanishedRabbit [2018-07-14 19:34:52 +0000 UTC]

Feels.
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AxtonDragunov [2018-06-20 05:05:26 +0000 UTC]

It would make sense that a few Kreigers would be able to resist the conditioning of the their training and retain an ounce or two of their inner humanityΒ 

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TransformAndConquer [2018-05-08 18:47:15 +0000 UTC]

What is this 'happiness' and 'joy' and 'love'?

Kriegers don't tend to be too familiar with those things.

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Xenokiller3 [2018-05-02 15:46:09 +0000 UTC]

The Kriegers deserve forgiveness from Big E at this point.

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