Turo slammed his fist down against his adversary, smashing into opponent's chest squeezing air out of his lungs, the flesh rippling around the impact and the pain it caused, turo could feel all of it. He then took a backhanded slap to the side of his face, momentarily distorting his features, bouncing back into shape only for his face to receive another smash. Turo grabbed his opponent by the shoulders and pulled him over forwards. Turo thrust his knee up into the gut of his adversary; the feeling of the soft flesh connecting with the hard bone of his knee was satisfying to the extreme. Turo raised his knee again but his opponent grabbed his other foot and pulled it up, forcing both of them to the ground. The human was on top of Turo and now had him pinned. Turo tried to push him off but the human knocked his hands away and drove his fist into the Tau's face. Turo's head recoiled back and hit the floor. Dazed for a moment he regained his senses and held his arms in the air. The fight was over.
"Good fight," panted Turo, as he was helped to his feet by the human, he had picked up a little bit of Gothic, but was far from fluent.
The human held him by the shoulders, gave him a warm smile, and then pulled him close to embrace him as one of their own.
It had been two weeks since her capture, and the feelings of being a prisoner were long gone. She had free reign to go where ever she wanted on the ship. It could be said that she had more freedom than many of the humans on the ship; not many humans were free to mingle with the Astartes. She had taken to wearing a dress that exposed her right breast, it became more natural that as she became more and more in tune with Slaanesh that she began to dress in a way that would suit one of his followers.
"There is something I want to see," she told Reptile one evening.
"What is it you would like to see, Kaida?" replied Reptile.
"I've heard human ships have psychic pilots, I'd like to see that."
"You mean the navigator?" Reptile looked confused, "But there is not much to see."
"But it would be a nice distraction," she argued.
Reptile led Kaida up to the top level of the ship, this must be where the bridge of the ship would be.
"In here," he said as he pushed open one of the doors to reveal a very dark room.
"But no one's in here," she said.
Reptile flicked a switch on the wall and the 'pilot' was revealed to her.
It was a human brain and spine that had been wired into a massive life support machine. There were regular twitches from the remains, as if it was being jolted into life by the machinery wired into it.
"This is Diodora," said Reptile, "The navigator of the Mourning Maiden, and her oldest crew member."
Kaida didn't know what to say, she was expecting a living person, not some remains of what used to be a person.
Reptile moved over to a screen in the wall, "This is how we talk to her, but we don't need to talk to her unless we make a journey."
"There is some text on the screen," Kaida said, "What is she saying?" She thought that if someone was to be in such a state for so long, she must have nothing but sorrow to express.
Reptile moved closer to take a look for himself, "She says that there is another ship that wishes to contact us. She's been contacted by another psyker through the warp!"
"What do you mean?"
"They are allies, and they are asking for our help," explained Reptile with a smile, "we must go and do what we can to aid them."
End of Part 1