Chapter 33(orphan)

Franklin's twin hearts were pounding, both the frantic panicky "dub-dub-dub-dub" of his original human heart, and the more steady and powerful calmer "DUB... DUB..." of his space marine gene seed organ secondary heart, as he lay tightly strapped down to Liling's surgery table, fully conscious without any pain relief...

"Franklin! Don't let her cut you!" Sister Mary screamed yet again from behind the overhead armoured observation window.

Franklin obediently struggled with all his might yet again, but the thick synthetic material straps were internally reinforced with some sort of thick steel cables, and clearly designed to hold even a space marine! He tried summoning the power of the Emperor, but found that the Daemon Princess TigerLily was still blocking his powers! He couldn't break free to obey his nun's order!

Franklin was naked, was intubated with a breathing mask also sealed firmly to his face, and was strapped down spread eagle on a cold hard surgical table of very thick stainless steel, low to the ground to let Liling operate with maximum ease. Lights glared down on him from above, dim by normal standards but very bright indeed for onboard this dark ship.

All around Franklin was various metallic medical and surgical equipment, Franklin was no doctor and didn't know exactly what he was looking at, but the equipment had clearly been designed to deliberately look sinister, with cruel demonic faces carefully carved into the shiny metal equipment as much as pragmatism allowed! The gleaming blades and surgical saws were particularly unnerving!

Five extremely mutilated surgical attendants in full body white medical gowns and sterile blue nitrile surgical gloves stood silently around the room in attendance, transparent plastic face shields revealing savagely mutilated faces grinning cruelly. But these attendants were not what Franklin was most worried about.

For standing over him, scalpel in hand, was the dreaded Liling!

Liling was dressed in her white full surgical garb like she usually was, but with her hair in a clear plastic hairnet, hands gloved, and face covered in a transparent plastic face shield, showing off the glowing pink mark of Slaanesh on her right cheek. Her pregnant swelling was visible under her white gown, but even this somehow managed to only make her look even more horrifying!

Liling smiled cruelly and waved to Sister Mary through the glass.

"Hello Franklin...," Liling said in a chilling voice.

"Minion Thing, administer the semen suction hose before we begin," Liling suddenly ordered one of the attendants.

Franklin gazed down nervously and watched as the attendant slipped a condom-like sheath on the end of a transparent hose over Franklin's penis! The attendant then activated a machine at the other end of the hose and Franklin suddenly felt a very strong suction on the end of his sinful limb!

"So that you don't ejaculate all over the surgery from the pain," Liling explained at his puzzled glance.

Sister Mary was shouting once again from the window, demanding that Franklin be sedated, but Liling was deliberately ignoring her.

"Activate the artificial air flow," Liling ordered.

Franklin suddenly felt dreadful as air was forced into his lungs as he was in the middle of exhaling! He then felt air being sucked out of his lungs as he was trying to breathe in! It was a truly horrible feeling!

"Patient is already prepped and ready for surgery Doctor," an attendant was now informing Liling.

"Beginning incision, feel free to scream Franklin," Liling said huskily.

Franklin gazed in horror as she moved her scalpel to his chest!

Extreme pain filled Franklin as his skin was parted by the scalpel! The blade was obviously deliberately slightly blunted just to increase the pain!

The blade sliced deep into his muscles, sawing through the tightly knotted muscle with burning agony!

Franklin's sinful limb was rock hard already from this terrible pain!

Liling sliced a huge cut right down the middle of his solar plexus, agony roaring through his brain!

Franklin climaxed safely into the suction sheath, in a powerful squirt that would have otherwise covered his chest with his sinful ejaculate! The suction hose sucked away the sinful fluid.

Liling changed surgical implements now, using a small motorised saw to cut into the bones of his chest!

Pain lanced through Franklin's entire skeleton as the vibrations of the saw echoed inside his bones! So MUCH pain!

Franklin climaxed again, and shamefully started to thrash his bound limbs in pleasure like a sinner!

Franklin had NEVER felt such wonderful pain! He was in HEAVEN!

Franklin orgasmed again in agonising bliss! Oh this was FANTASTIC!

"Damnation! ANOTHER damn super masochist! He LIKES it TOO MUCH!" Liling cursed bitterly.

Franklin nodded honestly, eagerly wanting more.

"No more pleasure for you! Not if you don't suffer from it! I'm not going to just get you off without true suffering after everything you have done to anger me already! Minion Things, sedate Franklin AT ONCE!" Liling snarled in demonic rage.

Franklin shook his head frantically as a needle was injected into him! He didn't want to MISS this pain!

Franklin was terribly disappointed as unconsciousness engulfed him, Liling was so CRUEL!

***...

Franklin woke up to find himself fully intact in a hospital bed, the painful operation was OVER! He was still only slightly aware of his surroundings through his sedated after-haze, but Franklin still felt tears well up in his eyes at this bitter disappointment.

Franklin felt the tears being wiped away and slightly turned his half awake bleary gaze to see Sister Mary fussing over him with a cloth.

"How do you feel?," Sister Mary asked gently.

"I feel sinful disappointment that I wasn't able to experience the full pain of the surgery," Franklin confessed penitently through his swimming drugged confusion.

"But HOW?! She was doing OPEN SURGERY on you! How could ANYONE enjoy that?!" Sister Mary exclaimed in horror.

"I am of depraved sinful blood, I have unholy urges inside me," Franklin confessed wretchedly, not fully sure if this was a dream or real.

"Your blood is NOT depraved, and you don't have to feel guilty about being a masochist! You are my SON and you have nothing to feel guilty about for your sexual tastes!" Wendy's voice exclaimed indignantly from the other side of the bed, Franklin hadn't even noticed she was there.

Franklin turned his eyes to see his mother Wendy and Octavia sitting next to the wall 3 meters away from the bed on the other side. Wendy looked maternally offended, clearly very protective of Franklin. (Octavia just looked cheerfully confused).

"I don't like all this garbage you have been brainwashed with! Worship another god all you like, but do NOT hate yourself like that!" Wendy complained.

Franklin blinked through his sedation, still not lucid enough to deal with this, and just lay quietly as the sedative slowly wore off.

"Just rest until you feel better Franklin, you look really delirious," Sister Mary urged with strain in her voice, kissing his forehead reassuringly.

Franklin nodded and drifted back off to sleep.

***...

Franklin felt a lot better after his long sleep, and was having no difficulty at all as he blasted Kevlar target circles with shotgun shells in one of the onboard firing ranges. For someone who had just had surgery, Franklin felt GREAT in fact!

Franklin had been implanted with two new organs, the Haemastamen and the Larraman's Organ, and with these he now had the legendary super fast healing factor of the space marines. These organs had been active in his body for many hours now, and were now fully operational. He was now already seemingly already fully healed from surgery earlier today!

Franklin in fact felt BETTER than he had before the surgery! His body seemed to never feel short of breath anymore, he felt FANTASTIC! He took another breath of air, feeling oxygen flood through his now altered blood, and aimed his shotgun at the target.

BOOM!

The recoil from the twin barrels firing together was savage, and he tightened his grip on the weapon to keep it under control. Franklin pumped the pump action handle.

CHUK-CHUK

A pair of used shells were ejected out of the top of the shotgun, and two new shells were chambered.

BOOM!

The thick Kevlar target was heavily sprayed with a fuselage of lethal metal ball bearings, as the weapon kicked hard in his strong grip.

CHUK-CHUK, BOOM!

He fired again with steadily growing accuracy.

CHUK-CHUK, BOOM!

CHUK-CHUK, BOOM!

CHUK-CHUK, click...

Franklin frowned, he had run out of shells again.

Franklin turned the weapon upside down and turned to a table full of boxes of shotgun ammunition beside him, feeding new shells into a shell slot under the weapon to reload it.

The shotgun could hold 14 shells inside its shell storage, but if you chambered two shells then you could add two more, bringing the total up to 16 shells. It only fired both barrels at once however, so this meant that at most it was good for 8 shots before reloading.

Franklin took aim again.

BOOM!

CHUK-CHUK

It was oddly satisfying to use the pump action handle to make the "chuk-chuk" noise, the noise was even more satisfying than actually firing the weapon. Franklin was tempted to just keep pumping without firing, the insidious temptation of "having fun" whispering to his mind.

Franklin ignored temptation and focused on firing the weapon, as it was his solemn duty to the Emperor to train to use this weapon of war so that he could use it well in battle.

BOOM!

Franklin went through hundreds of shells as he improved his aim, spraying increasingly distant targets with shots. It was a very wasteful process training like this, using shells on targets instead of the enemies of mankind.

Franklin would be much more comfortable using something like a lasgun that ran on rechargeable batteries rather than shells, but his father had explained that lasguns had no recoil, and that to handle a bolter one day Franklin had to train with a weapon that had savage recoil.

The shotgun threatened to jump out of his hands as Franklin fired again, and Franklin had to admit that this was a good weapon for recoil training! Sister Mary had been completely knocked off her feet when she had tried to use it!

CHUK-CHUK, click... Out of shells again!

Franklin was a bit apprehensive about using this in a live combat zone, having to reload so often would be dangerous. This weapon was designed for defensive use by Ratings of the Imperial Navy, to clear tight short corridors of hoards of lightly armoured enemy boarders in a single blast, designed to be used as part of a tight firing line with some Ratings firing as others reloaded, mincing enemies to paste in a fighting environment where ammo was never far away. A battlefield would be very different...

Franklin reloaded yet again, and just kept firing, hundreds of times until Karen told him to stop.

"You are a fast learner Franklin, the best discipline I have ever seen in a novice shooter. Concubine tell your master to empty all the shells from the weapon and put any ammunition he is carrying on the table right now," Karen ordered.

"Franklin do it," Sister Mary commanded.

Franklin obediently pumped out all the shells until none remained in the gun, and emptied all the shells from his pockets onto the table. At a command from Sister Mary he left the firing range holding his empty shotgun, headed home now for his evening punishments.

Franklin had a sinful swelling already as he walked home, looking forward to being solidly whipped and caned by his entire group of nuns all at the same time. Sister Mary noticed the swelling immediately and stroked his ear the rest of the walk home to keep him pure.

Franklin joyfully walked into his "bedroom", excited to see over ten nuns waiting for him with canes in their hands! Franklin laid his weapon at their feet and kneeled down before then, backs of his hands held out for his knuckle caning.

Ten canes swatted down, but only 5 on his knuckles. The other 5 canes struck Sister Mary's raised knuckles! Sister Mary immediately yelped loudly in pain as Franklin remained silent, and a few more swats reduced Sister Mary to tears!

Franklin felt terribly conflicted as the nuns continued beating the weeping Sister Mary, he felt extremely protective of her, but at the same time he would not defy ten of his nuns for the sake of just one. A nun then began tickling Franklin and he had no more room in his mind to feel conflicted, too distracted by his own suffering to focus on his weeping favourite nun...

2 and a half hours of blissful confessions and punishments followed as Franklin was utterly dominated and humbled, when the nuns suddenly stopped and went pale, silently trembling with terrible fear. Franklin followed their gaze and saw the huge daemon crawling awkwardly through the bedroom door that was too small for her!

"BOO!" The daemon said suddenly, and the nuns screamed and fled to the far end of the room.

The daemon laughed uproariously at the reaction of the nuns, and managed to crawl all the way through the door, down on her knees and elbows to fit under the ceiling.

"I used to fit in this room just fine when I was mortal, everything looks so much smaller now," the daemon chuckled.

Franklin deemed this enough of an emergency to justify breaking orders to move from his position, and he stood protectively in front of his nuns as Sister Superior Clementine went berserk and tried unsuccessfully to charge at the daemon in her chains.

"I feel a tad unwelcome in your room Stepson, can a stepmother not come into her stepchild's bedroom?," TigerLily scolded mockingly, wagging a giant finger at him.

"What do you want daemon?," Franklin asked coldly.

"To see you of course, you are my stepson, I have every right to come and talk to you," the daemon said cheerfully.

Sister Superior Clementine spat gobs of spit at the daemon hatefully, managing to get a gob on the daemon's arm.

"Do you MIND! That was extremely rude!" TigerLily exclaimed offended.

Sister Superior Clementine spat again, hitting TigerLily's face.

"I can spit too, how do you like it?!" TigerLily snapped and spat a huge blue gob of daemonic spit at the raging Sister of Battle.

The daemon spit was so big that it slammed her back against the wall, ropes of blue slime hanging off her! It was absolutely disgusting!

Sister Superior Clementine was completely unfazed, and just resumed trying to attack and spit on the daemon.

"House train your pet or I won't let you keep her," TigerLily warned Franklin.

"I do not presume to control the behaviour of my betters daemon!" Franklin said icily.

"Your betters?, Well I might dare to suggest that I, as an exalted princess of the warp, am somewhat higher ranking in this war band than an obnoxious concubine slave who spits on people... In the absence of the Matriarch herself, *I* am the master of this war band, you would be wise to show me more respect...," TigerLily warned with just a touch of ice in her usually cheerful voice.

Franklin held silent, the best he could manage at respect.

"Franklin Sevenson, do you imagine that I am not able to read your mind?, Do you think that I am somehow fooled by you?, I know EXACTLY what you are, what you plan, what you think, and your murderous intent towards my family, biding your time trying to build our trust so you can slit our throats!" TigerLily hissed with terrifying clarity!

The nuns all gasped and Franklin gazed at TigerLily in horror, she KNEW!

"Oh yes Franklin, I do indeed KNOW, I know more than you could possibly guess. I am privy to Tzeentch's knowledge of fate, I can see all of the horrible things you would do to us if given the chance... You pitiful fool..." TigerLily whispered, the whole cheerful facade now dropped to show the highly aware evil intelligence hidden beneath it!

"You have already done a truly awful thing to my daughter Hyacinth, you have caused so much terrible TERRIBLE harm to a kind and gentle young woman, and all for the sake of hate, despite not even KNOWING her well enough to see more than her outside skin!" TigerLily accused with vicious hatred.

Franklin could see no escape this time, it was all over, it HAD to be this time!

"Stop your despair mortal! Despair is the fuel of Nurgle! The great enemy of Tzeentch! There IS hope, oh yes, a hope that has not occurred to you, a hope that your Emperor is counting on. Would you like to know?," TigerLily suddenly reassured in a completely different mood that didn't match with her previous emotions at all!

"Yes! Tell me of this hope!" Franklin said with frantic mad hope.

"Let me slow walk you to it, so you can figure it out for yourself." TigerLily said and cheerfully began.

"You have burned my sweet natured innocent daughter alive, terrorised my loved ones, and plot to kill my entire family. Yet knowing all of this I have still been remarkably forgiving and have not simply killed you. WHY haven't I simply killed you right now to remove the threat?," TigerLily asked.

Franklin thought furiously and thought that he had the answer, "because you are married to my father and he would not forgive you,"

"Hmm, you would think so but no, not even close," TigerLily chuckled.

Franklin thought again, darker thoughts this time, and sadly said, "because I fail don't I! You succeed in corrupting me!"

"Hmm, in some fates you do but in others you don't, it is a gamble at best, and one that the Emperor thinks he can win. This alas is also not the reason why," TigerLily said happily.

Franklin thought again, what could it possibly be?

"Oh you are never going to guess it, shall I just tell you?," TigerLily asked.

"Tell me!" Franklin begged.

"Very well, the reason why I am so forgiving of you burning my daughter alive and plotting to murder my family, the reason that will let you guess WHY you have some reason to hope is because, hate crimes are... FUNNY!" TigerLily roared with laughter.

"What?! I'm completely confused, what?!" Franklin spluttered in complete bewilderment.

"I was watching from the warp when you burned my daughter alive, when I saw it I laughed so hard I pissed myself!" TigerLily laughed with maniacal glee.

"You're mad!" Franklin spluttered.

"YES! You guessed the answer! Hope for you is not lost because I am utterly out of my fucking mind! I'm insane, so filled with the legendary unpredictability of Tzeentch that I am utterly insane!" TigerLily gibbered with mad glee, giggling madly.

Franklin stammered as the daemon continued to laugh insanely.

"So you mean you will actually HELP me?!" Franklin asked in astonishment.

"Nah, I won't help you fool, I will kill you," TigerLily laughed and grabbed Franklin with an impossibly strong hand!

TigerLily opened her mouth impossibly widely, revealing razor sharp teeth, and swallowed Franklin in a single gulp!

***...

Sister Mary ran sobbing straight to Wendy as soon as the daemon left the room, Franklin was DEAD!

Sister Mary found Wendy handcuffed in the bathtub, laughing hard as Octavia tickled her, and Sister Mary just stood and made incoherent sobbing noises at the two women until they stopped and asked her what was wrong.

"Daemon! TigerLily! ATE FRANKLIN!" Sister Mary bawled.

"WHAT!? TigerLily ate my son?!" Wendy shouted from her bondage.

"Yes! He's dead!" Sister Mary wailed.

"TIGERLILY! Get your ass in here!" Wendy shouted angrily, even with her wrists still handcuffed above her head to a wall water pipe.

Sister Mary scrambled into the bathroom away from the doorway, taking refuge in the shower cubicle, and watched in horror as a giant disembodied blue ass floated into the room! What?!

"Very funny you bitch! Get the rest of your body in here too!" Wendy snapped in growing outrage.

"(Fart)... As you... (Fart)... Wish... (Loud fart)," the blue backside said flatulently out of its hole!

The huge blue head of TigerLily emerged out of the bum hole, followed by the neck. The backside then turned itself inside out as the rest of the body emerged from it, the blue bottom joining with the rest of the body as the giant daemon squatted barely fitting inside the bathroom!

"This looks romantic, tickle tickle," TigerLily smirked, reaching out with long spindly fingers to stroke Wendy's defenceless underarms!

Wendy shrieked with laughter from the daemon's touch, but was so angry that she forced her words out through her torment.

"You ATE Franklin?!" Wendy laughed angrily.

The daemon didn't stop tormenting the outraged Chaos Champion but nodded happily.

"Is he DEAD?!" Wendy cackled in upset rage.

"Deadish," TigerLily shrugged.

"Liar! Bring him back!" Wendy howled with laughter.

"Nope," TigerLily chortled.

"This isn't funny!" Wendy laughed hysterically.

"If it's not funny then why are you laughing?," TigerLily teased childishly.

"Please bring Franklin back fearsome daemon!" Sister Mary begged.

"I'm too busy having fun with Wendy," the daemon chuckled.

Furious hope filled Sister Mary as it suddenly dawned on her, this was all just a joke, a PRANK!

Sister Mary burst out laughing, her sudden relief making this the funniest joke she had ever experienced! Sister Mary gasped in great bursts of laughter, joyful relief and hope making this seem extra funny.

"Yay, she got the joke! Just as planned!" TigerLily said joyously.

Sister Mary laughed with joy as TigerLily made vomiting sounds, and puked up Franklin... completely dead...

Sister Mary's laughter died in her throat and she screamed!

TigerLily roared with apocalyptic mad demonic laughter, suddenly showing her TRUE punchline to this joke.

TigerLily grabbed Octavia now and handcuffed her next to Wendy, tormenting both at once!

"RUN!" The voice of the Emperor urged suddenly in Sister Mary's mind as the daemon was distracted by her two laughing captives!

Sister Mary fled with all her strength, running from the shower a split second before the daemon absentmindedly reached in a hand to grab her and add her to the captives!

"Aw, well I guess that two laughing nightingales to laugh at my jokes is enough..." the daemon said sadly as Sister Mary fled out of the room.

The other nuns were waiting fearfully outside the bathroom, and Sister Mary ran crying into their arms.

"Don't stop, all of you run!" The Emperor's voice commanded.

They all seemed to hear it and ran as one.

"Left... Right... Left... Left again...," The Emperor directed them through the ship as they ran!

They were panicking and couldn't see in the dark, but their perfect faith let them run confidently as directed.

"Up ahead, beg the mutants for help to resurrect Franklin!" The Emperor urged them!

The nuns gasped at this but obeyed, seeing the mutant witches all standing together in a huddle!

The nuns got down on their knees and begged the mutants for help!

"Please help us! Franklin is dead! Please resurrect him!" Sister Mary pleaded.

"(Squawk)... Good riddance!" the horrifically burned mutant witch squawked like a bird.

"Apologise and beg harder!" The Emperor shouted at the nuns.

The nuns dropped down on their faces before the burned mutant woman and screamed out apologies for what had happened to her!

The mutant cocked her head uncertainly, and the nuns apologised all the harder, digging deeply into their hearts to see that it had been wrong! They apologised sincerely!

The mutants all looked interested now but still not convinced.

"Everyone except Sister Mary, start kissing each other! Trick the mutants into thinking you are lesbians!" The Emperor urged.

The nuns all looked uncertain at this...

"Franklin will die if you don't! Do it NOW!" The Emperor passionately ordered them!

The nuns yelped in frantic fright, and all except Sister Mary started kissing each other!

"More! More!" The Emperor commanded!

The nuns fearfully kissed passionately, on and on.

"Moan loudly and strip naked!" The Emperor demanded.

Sister Mary watched in dismay as the other nuns frantically obeyed! This wasn't right!

"Quick! Have lesbian sex with each other! There isn't time to delay! Put your tongues inside each other!" The Emperor shouted urgently!

Sister Mary gasped in sick shock as the other nuns obeyed! How COULD this be His will?!

It went on and on as the mutants watched! The nuns were moaning loudly!

"My nuns! What in the Emperor's name are you DOING!?" Franklin's voice was now shouting loudly...

Wait...

TigerLily's choking laughter filled their ears and the mutants and the corridor they were in faded away like mist, to reveal Franklin's bedroom, with Franklin alive and well, TigerLily exactly where she had been before eating Franklin... And every nun except Sister Mary engaged in a lesbian orgy!

Sister Mary frantically hugged Franklin, as TigerLily laughed so hard that she fell over sideways!

Pandemonium erupted as the nuns realised that it had all been a trick!

Nuns were vomiting in revulsion and frantically trying to find their clothes!

"Looking for these?," TigerLily laughed, holding all their clothes in her hands!

Franklin was blushing bright crimson, the front of his pants darkly stained by a wet patch!

"Quick! Kiss Franklin on the lips!" The Emperor's voice urged in Sister Mary's mind!

Sister Mary's lips just made contact when she came to her senses and saw that it was a trick!

"Franklin I order you to kiss Sister Mary!" Mother Superior's voice commanded sternly, from the direction of TigerLily...

Before Sister Mary fully comprehended what was happening, Franklin was kissing her passionately!

"Keep kissing her!" The stern voice that sounded identical to Mother Superior ordered.

"Kiss Franklin!" The false voice of the Emperor commanded in Sister Mary's mind, but she wasn't fooled and frantically resisted.

"Have sex with Sister Mary!" The pretend voice of Mother Superior commanded!

"Franklin it's a trick! TigerLily is copying Mother Superior's voice!" Sister Mary screamed at Franklin!

Franklin stopped instantly and tore around to glare at TigerLily.

TigerLily pointed a finger at the naked other nuns, and those without strong enough wills threw themselves at Franklin, ordering him to get naked and penetrate them!

Sister Mary desperately countermanded the orders, but the afflicted nuns outnumbered her, and had a bigger combined authority to control Franklin's submission!

Mother Superior and Sister Superior Clementine added their voices to countermand the orders, and soon all of the unaffected nuns were joining in, desperately keeping Franklin from deflowering the bewitched nuns!

Franklin had stripped naked by now and was desperately caught in an impasse between the conflicting sets of commands, his erect limb inches away from Sister Pamela's sin tunnel!

Franklin's eyes were wide and crazy with lust, clearly fighting illusions in his own mind.

"Stop resisting and pleasure your master!" TigerLily complained at the unaffected nuns.

Sister Pamela was holding Franklin's erect member now and trying to put it inside her, eyes bewitched by the daemon.

"Fuck me Franklin!" Sister Pamela ordered with shocking sternness and suddenly Franklin was inside her!

The nuns screamed countermanding orders and tried to pull Sister Pamela off, but her legs were wrapped too tightly around him!

"I'm sorry! I just ejaculated!" Franklin said wretchedly, his manhood still inside Pamela!

A bolt of blue lightning suddenly struck Sister Pamela from the direction of TigerLily!

"Pregnant now!" TigerLily laughed delightedly!

Sister Mary screamed.

"One down, the rest of you to go. Before this day is done, ALL of you will be pregnant to Franklin, even you old Mother Superior!" TigerLily warned with absolute certainty...

***...

Franklin felt both terrible but also strangely sinfully pleased with himself, as Liling gleefully confirmed that every single one of his nuns was now PREGNANT!

TigerLily had simply been too powerful to fight, she had blocked the only exit to the room and just kept bewitching and confusing everyone, until every single nun had had Franklin's seed sown inside them! A bit of witchcraft then made the nuns instantly supernaturally fertile and ovulating, and now Franklin was a father!

"The Matriarch will be delighted! Well done Franklin! If the pregnancies are mostly boys then you will have just replaced every life that was lost rescuing you from the orphanage!" Liling said approvingly.

Franklin groaned silently in his mind, he had just created MORE blasted Night Lords!

"Incidentally, THIS is why I didn't kill you, you CAN'T kill the Sevenson family without killing your own children now, and I HIGHLY doubt that your nuns will have the heart to let their own babies be killed, so I would say that this is checkmate," TigerLily's disembodied voice whispered mockingly in Franklin's mind.

"My sons and daughters will be raised to worship the Emperor, and as neither I nor my nuns are heretics, my children will be born clean with no need of the Painful Path! This is NOT over!" Franklin thought back angrily.

"We'll see...," TigerLily's voice replied mockingly...

***...