At the moment of the discovery, a tiny red dot sparked off Callahan's armour, then another and another. The houses resident had a laspistol, emperor knows what he planned to do with it, but the fool had courage, or stupidity.
"Step away from the gate! I told you not to come in here!"
Callahan turned to face the man, raising his left hand, which had a power fist attached.
"Please" Callahan sighed
The inquisitor jabbed his arm forward, and the little mans head was crushed against a wall, which promptly splintered.
Josef finished clambering out of the wreckage of the furniture, and took a position in front of the gate.
Gregor and the rest of the squad followed and surrounded the structure.
Josef never moved his aim from the thing.
"Orders?"
Callahan tried to move into the room, but had to widen the doorframe for his armour. He examined the structure for several minutes, muttering meaningless words. He then said a word that the squad recognized; he finally gave his opinion on the subject.
"Eldar tech, a webway gate of some sort, odd that they would assemble one here, in the house of a human. They don't trust us, you know. They usually keep such tech to themselves. This is out of hand now, I had expected something of this sort, but…" Callahan was shaking his head by now, even he was lost, and he quite obviously was not prepared for a discovery like this.
Gregor and the squad turned as a voice, distant yet near at the same time, a ghostly echo, spoke behind them.
"But what? Inquisitor"
Neither Josef nor Callahan turned. The sentence had been spoken by separate people, near the entrance to the house, two children in their teens stood, holding hands. One a boy, his pale skin glowing dimly in the low lighting, his long, uncut hair seemingly floated as if submerged in water. The other, a girl with skin, paler still. Her were eyes closed, but her pupils shone through the eyelids. Most of her face was obscured by long, black hair.
Callahan sighed, "You know by now that I did not expect this, Victorian."
The girl spoke. "Irving, we knew this from before the war began, and we know that all will understand, soon enough."
The boy took over speaking. "You know what is to be done, and you know what is at stake, if you do not act soon, then this discovery is meaningless."
Gregor pointed his storm bolter at the two children, had they been anyone else he would have deemed the act unthinkable.
"State your intent, witch!" Gregor yelled at the children, he prepared to fire.
"Be not afraid," the girl spoke.
"Son of marl" the boy finished.
Callahan grunted. "Do not shoot. They're with us."
Gregor lowered his gun, unconvinced.
"Truth is, and we all know it, Victorian, is that we must bring a full team for survey, investigation and demolition of this gate. Unless you can reveal anything?" Callahan turned to face the two children.
"We have tried a million times since we reached this world, and a million times before, both of us sensed this in our fates and yet neither of us could see anything beyond. It is though something, is hiding our gaze, preventing our minds from venturing forth. We share anything we find, if half knows, then it becomes full circle. Our minds work as one, and yet we see, nothing." Both children spoke as one.
"Great, do you feel anything now that you are near it?" Callahan gestured to the gate.
The two children walked into the room together, holding hands. When they reached the gate, they stopped. The boy's hair dropped, and hung freely, the glow behind the girls eyelids faded, and she opened her eyes, Callahan jumped back, Josef stared at the two children. The girls deep blue eyes flicked to Pontius. And she spoke by herself.
"Now we understand"
