Tales of a Tech-Priest

Chapter 1: The Magos calls

Tech-Priest Sevonyx Kirill, augmented with a corpus gloriosa, headed down the familiar halls of the Mechanicus space station 'cohort' in the Aeon system, Ultima Segmantum, towards Magos Akai's laboratory. Magos Akai was the system's most prominent Magos Xenobiologis and one of the few Magi Psykana in the system.

As he approached Akai's laboratory, the 5 metre high wrought adamantine doors, the doors slowly creaked open, slow enough to make Sevonyx believe that the Magos was doing it on purpose for what those outside the Mechanicus might refer to as "dramatic effect".

"Tech Priest Sevonyx, my pets told me of your approach."

"I am answering your summons, Magos"

"I know, I was the one who sent the message. You are aware of the Ice world, Millenium?"

"Don't you mean Millenia, Magos?"

The Magos leaned down towards one of his pet psykers and whispered "Verify, human catalogue 58." "Yes, Magos, it's called Millenia." Akai again faced Sevonyx, "Excellent, I knew you'd pass the test. Now, you are to be sent there, to my laboratory"...

"Magos..." Sevonyx interupted "I study biology and Material Sciences, not Xenobiology!"

"Let me finish, Sevonyx. You along with other Metallurgicus and Investigatus specialists are being sent to my laboratory on Millenia, where you shall be met by a representative of the Mechanicus aligned knight house Azkir to become a sacristan, as they lost a few, several months back, they were tinkering with a knight errant's thermal cannon when, and I quote " there was a large boom" and half the knight and all 13 sacristans in the blast radius were no longer there, but that's what you get when you let a heretek tinker on a big ass melta gun."

"Magos, remeber the meme you sent a while back, to warn you when you start using fleshbag mannerisms?"

"Omnissiah! Thank you Sevonyx!"

"Back to the previous point, I'm to become a sacristan on an Ice rock!?"

"This is correct, only for a relatively short tour, about a hundred years or so, along with a dozen other Tech-Priests."

"But Mago"...

"I know it's dangerous and often boring down their so take this." the magos said as his pet psykers pushed a 1.5-1.5 metre crate up to Sevonyx. "Go ahead open it."

Sevonyx pressed the button to open the crate. The crate opened. Sevoyx spoke. " Magos?"

"Yes? What do you think?"

" This is a child."

"Yes, a psyker, I belive the Scholastica Psykana would peg him under divination."

"It clearly hasn't even hit puberty yet!"

"Very astute, Sevonyx, and his name is david."

"But"...

"There there, Sevonyx, I gave the other twelve new sacristans one each, so you won't stick out."

"But"...

"The shuttle leaves in 5 hours. Don't miss it." Akai said as he turned back to his laboratory, doors closing behind him."

After a minute of staring at the adamantine doors, Sevonyx realised that the Davis thing was staring at him.

"Why do you look like a normal human?"

Shit, it was inquisitive. "It is a corpus gloriosa, it allows me to appear and function human externally identical to humans. I'm assuming you still have your human digestive tract and require sustenance."

"Sustenance?"

"Food!"

"Yes"

"Faecal matter!" Literally, from david and metaphorically, the situation.

"What?"

Were all small humans this moronic he wondered "Your too young for the alternative word."

"What does alternative mean?"

"Omnisiah preserve me."