The Vengeance of the Tau

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They rumbled through the school gates in trucks the same gray color as the sky. A Kübelwagen led the motorcade, its passenger standing up on the floorboard and gripping the windshield frame for support. His black uniform was darkened by the storm that had soaked it. A jagged scar ran the length of the left side of his face beneath the cheekbone.

“Abgesessen und sich in einer Reihe aufstellen!” he ordered after stepping down into the muck.

Instantly troops in heavy wool uniforms poured from the back of the three trucks. Their rifles leveled before them, most swept across the schoolyard to cut off any possible escape. The rest came to attention two yards behind the man in the black uniform.

“What is the meaning of this?”

The speaker was a priest, who strode defiantly across the yard past the guards who had taken up their positions. He stopped a rifle’s distance away from the dark figure, the rain pounding both of them.

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