Trazyn the Infinite

  Trazyhrilled. A museum wasn’t quite a museum without visitors. History was meant to be appreciated, not fotten or destroyed like so many of the short lived races teo do.

  A civilisation that didn’t learn and honour their history was a civilisation doomed to repeat their mistakes until they eventually resulted in the downfall of their civilisation.

  It was iable. Short sightedness was also iable when one lived for a st few decades and had to worry about daily sustenance.

  Unfortunately, despite Trazyn’s Infinite Galleries being the most expensive and — if he was being ho with himself — greatest museum in the gaxy, it hardly had any visitors.

  Not of his own fault of course. Few among his fellow Ne saw the appeal of his colleany only wished to look into the future and fet the past ever existed, like that damned Orikan.

  Other races were even worse. He would sooner send his colle into the bck hole than invite an Aeldari into his sanctum. Orks were not the best crowd for an intellectual versation and humans … well, they were the most receptive, though still g in many ways.

  He had to threate group of visitors every few minutes with a painful death so they would st to kill him. The mindshackle scarabs in their heads, but that only made it worse. He felt like a fool, showing around a group of puppets who let his wo in one ear and out the other.

  Anyway, with all that said, one could easily uand why he was delighted to show around his visitor.

  The manner in which she got here was … well, unventional. Usually visitors were supposed to enter a museum on their own volition, not through a Prismatic Labyrinth.

  Oh well. He wasn’t oo care about such little details. The female being of a yet uermined species was a willing visitor. No, she was better. She aying attention, asking questions, and learning.

  She wao be here and seemed to enjoy herself.

  Then it became eveer. He learned she had the memories of a human from the early 21st tury. The how didn’t matter to him as much as the well of new information her mind represented.

  And what a well it was. Humanity first caught Trazyn’s attention during what they now called the Horus Heresy. He had only a st few historical records and artefacts from before that.

  Even the humans barely uood their own history, especially from before the 30th millenia. Such a shame.

  The day just kept gettier. One of the high points certainly was when she reised one of the a paintings in the humaion.

  To think he had such a thing lying about in a simple stasis field. It would have to get an exhibit of its own. A reli the personal colle of the Sigillite, one older than most civilisations alive today deserved that much at least.

  He worried initially that his initial rough treatment of her might have left some sour feelings behind — as it usually did with humans — but he leasantly surprised.

  Well, he would have been more surprised if he wasn’t made aware that the only thing human about his visitor was the shape of the body she seemingly preferred to take. Aside from those memories she had of course.

  His running theory was that she was some a being that once devoured a human that lived in the 21st tury and absorbed the human’s memories.

  As for what exactly she was? He had no clue. It was exg. A unique being. There were very few of those in the gaxy. It also made her a perfect didate to be preserved in the galleries …

  It would have been such a waste if some short lived imbecile killed this unique being. The only member of a species. Gone. Just the thought of it was revolting. He had to somehow vince her that remaining here was for the best … she seemed reasonable enough so maybe it wouldn’t e down to a fight.

  He had little doubt about being able to overpower her. She would surely be able to wreak some havoc, maybe everoy some of his artefacts, but the tai in which her ‘avatar’ was held had been made to restrain Star Gods.

  It would hold.

  Still, he’d rather it not e down to that. He suspected she would be much less ameer being roughed up by a phase-sword. He could lose his new favourite visitor.

  What a dilemma. What a brain-twister.

  Then she offered an alternative- No, it artly a threat, wasn’t it? Hmm, he wasn’t sure whether it had ah to it. Could she really do anything to Solemnace, even if that ‘avatar’ was just one of many she trolled?

  He doubted it. Solemnace held a Star God prisoner. It was one of the most magnifit pieces of Ne iy and teology ience. Aire p made of livial powered by a star at the core of it all.

  No upstart bio-morpher — or whatever she was — would bring it down after having stood the test of time for 60 million years.

  Still. She mildly resisted the tai field, and cimed to be capable of detonating her body. Some exhibits could be damaged as a result. That meaiation it was.

  As for the danger she posed to his person? razyn long mastered transferring his sciousness. If, by some miracle, she mao destroy his body, he had millions more all around the p he could inhabit in a moment. Ea was hardly the only one who could py the multiple body card.

  Not that any of those siderations mattered in the end. Her offer was good. Stelr even. She would willingly leave her avatar behind, and if he wanted, she would fight for him for pensation in the form anic samples.

  It was better than what he inally wanted. Some drops of blood were hardly important to him. He also uood he artially ensuring she would never have all of her avatars destroyed this erfect.

  And he could take her out of stasis to get her opinion on new exhibits too. Another impartial opinion was always useful and that one Magos he teo bother with it was dreadfully dull when anything other than fiddling with anic matter was ed.

  Trazyn agreed to her terms with barely tained glee. Things didn’t tend to go nearly as well for him as this had, but he would be taking a free win when offered.

  A sihought ran through his mind as he watched the strange woman’s still strained avatar freeze as the stasis field came online.

  Her help might be more than useful wheime es to visit Cephris. I imagihe tomb of Nephret will be heavily defended, even after all these years and with the p having suffered aerminatus.

  Yes, I think I will take her with me.

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