"I sense... "

Adrianne began; closing her eyes as she reached with her hand past Vala's face.

Reaching out with her aura to touch the tunnels with her ethereal senses, Adrianne found flickers of light; small embers of weak souls littering the tunnels around them beyond the vision of mortal eyes or mechanical sensors.

But these souls were incomplete, bisected. As if something had severed their mortal bodies, just as the mechanicum Skitarii all around them. But it was more; what little spattering of souls still burned in the abused bodies was twisted, constrained by a malignant presence; relatively weak but there nonetheless, binding the soul in a twisted lifeless cage. And the weak lights were many, all converging towards their position in the tunnel; coming closer with every second!

A horde of tech slaves, barely even human before whatever demonic corruption changed them even further!

"The damned... " Adrianne muttered, the Psyker opening her eyes behind the dark visors of her skull mask to look at the ironic sight of the large number of Skitarii and lone tech-heretic accompanying her in the chimera; which would have looked like a prison escort if she hadn't known better.

"There is a horde of possessed in these tunnels. Weak but numerous, the industrial working caste; industrial augmentations in addition to heavy demonic corruption. If we stay here the horde will come upon us at any minute now!"

Adrianne said over the comms, as she suddenly didn't feel so safe anymore in the Chimera!

One thing was a mindless warp abomination slapping the armoured hull of the Chimera with its tentacles, which was [u][b]only[/b][/u] an uncomfortable experience for the most part. Yet a mindless warp abomination with corrupted jackhammers for arms was an entirely different experience of both uncomfortable [u][b]and[/b][/u] dangerous, and Adrianne did not trust in the Chimera's armor against both industrial equipment and demonic strength combined!