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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 5594073" data-attributes="member: 4936">Kestrel stepped back from the 'noble,' her skin crawling as the images she'd seen flee from her mind like dreams upon the waking. Psyker! He'd done something, pulled the warp in on her! And yet, dimly at first and then more strongly, she felt that she had faced whatever challenge she'd been meant to face. A sense of rightness pierces her natural horrified reaction to the thought of being touched by the warp. This was different. Unbidden in her mind came the image of a flame in the dark; a reminder that even in the depths of the warp, the Emperor's light still shone.Movement.She pivoted and raised a hand just in time to catch something the bodyguard had chucked at her. Her eyes darted to the contraption, half-expecting to see a grenade. It wasn't though, and it only took Kestrel a moment to realize what it was. Sure enough, a man on the floor bore the collar.Kes gave the bodyguard a quizzical look. Another warm body for her to be the guard and executioner of? And then she remembered the first one to have that hold on her.Zhent.She turned to see the scarred man stumbling back from the noble and stretched out a hand to stop him from falling over backwards."Are you all right?"</blockquote>