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To feel pain or fear or grief is to allow myself a luxury I cannot afford.
Radicals believe that any methods are allowable if they accomplish the Inquisitorial task. Some, as I understand it, actually embrace and use forbidden resources, such as the Warp itself, as weapons against the enemies of mankind.
Do you think me weak, flawed? Do you hate me for setting my Inquisitorial role above the needs of one agonised being? If you do, I commend you. I think of that woman still, and hate the fact I left her to die slowly. But if you hate me, I know this about you… you are no inquisitor. You don’t have the moral strength.
I’m excusing a lot because I recognise the trauma and loss you have suffered. But my patience isn’t limitless… unlike my authority.’
‘I– I have rights!’ The man spat suddenly. ‘You are in the custody of the Imperial Inquisition,’ I told him frankly. ‘You have no rights whatsoever.’
