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Jinhai reported through the Almanac that Otto was busy with other duties. Unavailable. A moment's consideration saw them look at each other after reading it then relayed a request to another who would do. Gunnac Umbercaller. Ever at the current Way core it would be easier to get him where they needed him but possibly less subtle a presence if an Aetherkind was watching. Nonetheless far more capable and resilient. One Jinhai moved further on along the path from the wrapper seeking the primary cause of the decoherence. Another did much the same moving a small firefly across the city to a nearby park. A psychoportation locus for Gunnac moving toward the destination point.

The two Jinhai moving toward the office then came across the object screaming of aetheric power. A tome so deeply tampering upon reality within the surface upon which it sat much less the environs by proxy. The entropic force infesting through matter in similar manner to discordant cells through the body of humankind. One stepped sideways into the other a momentary tiding nebulae arranging to forment a new constellation of eyes. The eight many had a greater depth of understanding among eldritch threads it wove discerning the locus of moment it once stitched together. The other four-many sidled up in proximity reading information around the object to give a better perspective to its other. The arrangement of the wake through outer planes became apparent with the faint correlation of striae out through extradimensional space. Enough for the engineer servitors to deploy a seeker potential to chase their lost humankind minutiae down as deep as it needed to go. They could then deploy its package to move their still rareified True Rekindled into play. It would require some alteration to minimize eddy distribution. The enemy Aetherkind wasn't apparent but likely one quite aware so some subterfuge would be required.

They set to work manufacturing a launch manifold encircling the book its large gloved hands arcing blue with metacreative energies. White psistone in hoar reached and branched upward in controlled branches as a set of piercing red eyes looked on from the door. The techmarine said little standing tall above the doorframe ducking to enter the home his cloying red silken cloak grips its way around the doorframe in little torn animated strips.

The deep voice echoed from within robust artifact armor, "Servitor, what is the nature of the threat? Why is it important I arrive unescorted?"

A castle of interlocking crystal strings in front of the eight many now came to its shoulders and was almost ready to deploy the hidden seeker. Potential charges tick along inner loops in both smooth linear time and the harsh jumps of barely discernible patterns writ periodic in time rather than the space of crystal design. Just controlled enough to function but nonlinear and random enough to squeeze between controlled patterns of Aetherkind and ignored as noise.

The eight-many responded with irregular glances of its many spark-eyes though it gave a continuum of attention, "An Aetherkind of power has acquired a humankind in a way that attempts to evade notice at a significant power utilization. It indicates value in the humankind that the Aetherkind must not be allowed to possess. Empathic impression signature is not of one that is known to us. Not Celestialkind, Infernalkind, Abyssalkind, Planarkind, Nurglekind. We do not feel it resembles the behavior of Outerkind. Outerkind observed to lack impetus for covering its tracks."

The four-many made a similar assessment of a smaller strategic venue, "The seeker will drop near to the humankind. Exactly proximal distance unknown. Foreign topology unknown. Intellectually noxious reality perturbation is observed among its native power bases. Your armor and enhanced astral structure can expect significant attack inertia on that vector."

The red eyes of the Techmarine positively glowed, "Then the glory for the Emperor is mine alone, today. What is my extraction point?"

"Origin," Replied the eight-many, "as it cannot be guaranteed that we will be able to significantly move the seeker once deployed. In potential proximity of a reality perturbator compromising entropic defense to move may damage carrying capacity. I have almost completed the manifold."

"A creature shifting reality to its whim? Eldar or creature of the Warp the Emperor will have their prize stolen from them this day." Said a hulking techmarine in deep monotone carefully watching the servitor complete its task.

A thin iridescent flatworm of psionic thoughtform made careful movements between peaks of white noise and error margins hiding in the noisy shadow of true data. The seeker followed the telltale striations of the signature impressed upon its mind by the eight-many's regulation. It slowly moved spreading its affect over many potential footfalls but a very slight perturbation of the error rate operating across multiple proximal timelines. The seeker naturally attracted to humankind by way of the Jinhai's affinity curled slowly inward toward Catherine's immediate reality.