Some psychic powers came more naturally than others, not because of my g potential but my inexperie was easy to turn my palm into a fmethrower but making several objects float with telekinesis without crushing them into dust or actally smashing them into walls? Now that was a bit more challenging. Telekinesis worked by coating an obje soul energy and trolling it through a tether ected to me, it needed stant tration to keep this up and even more if I wa to move as I wanted. It turned out that my new body's mind was just as adaptable as the rest of its eldritch parts and it didn't take me long to have several smaller objects orbiting around me like little ps around a star. I added small fireballs into the mix, it worked mostly the same just with the end of the tether stantly burning up. I wasn't sure how much of a vulnerability this tether eg me to them was in a fight, others might be able to just cut it with their own psychic attacks, making me lose soul energy without it achieving anything useful. From what I remembered the other types of powers psykers had were: Illusions, Invisibility, Preition, and Biokinesis aside from the more plicated ones like Memory Manipution or Travel. For obvious reasons, Biokinesis was the most iing to me, if I could use soul energy to create anic matter then my body's energy reserves could be easily replenished, giving me a basically infinite lifespan as long as I could siphon energy from the . Not that I remembered anyone being capable of doing that, at most they healed wounds and cured diseases but Biokinesis in itself was an advanced power. Oher hand, shooting Eldritch Bsts, came as naturally as it could, soul energy fshed out of my fingers in a beam of white light and smashed through a wall. It was near instant and as basid easy to trol as any psychic power could be, it was, in essence shooting out soul energy from my fingers and making it obliterate whatever it touched first. Its ease didn't make it any less deadly though, quite the opposite, and it was much more cost-effective than doing the same with my pyrokinesis or telekinesis. I tested Biokinesis obviously, which resulted in me having to stitch my body back together from more than a hundred separate parts. That will need much more trol than I have right now. In the est, I wathen my muscles purely with biokinesis, which resulted in me only having my bones in said arm a moment ter. My prior muscles now coating me in a signifit amount of gore. Ok, sure, let's leave that for ter, I practice trol with the other abilities before this one. Illusions and Invisibility came almost as easily as the Eldritch Bst did, these relied not so mu trol as on my imagination and visualization. Being an eldritch monstrosity with dozens of thought-streams going all over the peither proved to be g. For Invisibility, I coated myself in a film of energy and made light bend arouhrough that, while Illusions required me to give it substan the form of soul energy while visualizily what I wa to show. As I wasn't in the mood to end up tossing myself into the by act I decided to keep practig these powers for now. I didn't know how to practice Preitioher so that was out too for now. I was walking around while bsting walls, paintings, and sculptures into bits until I stumbled upon my inal destination, the office of the dear governor of this dead p. I walked in and took in the sight of the pce, it was much more personal than the rest f the pce, making me assume he teo spend most of his time here when he wasn't politig. I plopped down into his extravagaher chair, surely made of some near-extinimal and treated by masters of their craft based on how fortable it was. Wish I had dimensional ste just to keep this chair. came the exercise which would test my perseverance, I'd have to read through most of the stuff here. I decided to start with the somewhat well-hidden vault cealed behind a bookshelf of all things. Cliche as hell, but it was still cool. I wasn't in the mood to search for secret switches or find the one book I'd o move to make it open up so I opted for tearing the whole shelf out of its pce which revealed the gleaming steel of the two-meter-tall vault behind it. The Vault door left its pce without me needing to exercise myself too much, I used my physical strength instead of tearing it off with telekinesis to not waste too muy energy. There was a near-infie of energy but replenishing my own soul energy was the most disturbing experience I have ever had the displeasure of experieng and I say that havi human corpses dissolve inside my body. I spent the couple of hours with my head buried in books and scrolls, trying to figure out whatever the fuck is going on around these parts. I surprisingly found what I wahe governor had a regional map with all of the 'major threats' around here. I predicted most of these but I wasn't certain until now, the Tau empire is close but if I'm right it should be oher side of the great rift, unlike Mandragora which was the Worlds of the Sautekh Dynasty, and the Strom Lord Imotekh. Joy. What I didn't know but somehow feared was also made evident, the splinter-fleets of Hivefleet Kraken were wandering all around these parts aing ps wherever they went. With that as the base the governor's peculiar as as described in several dots made much more sense. He supported a group of rebels that preached about freedom and safety uhe prote of the 'star children'. "Mhm," I o myself, "not suspicious at all." Well, whoever scoured the world for whatever reason probably wiped out these weirdoes too along with the rest of the popution. Though I would have liked getting my hands on a geealer. "Fuck..." Doesn't that mean that a splinter-fleet is closing in on the p? I was yanked out of my musings, I saw light in the dark sea I ko be the . I felt nearly blind to it pared to when I ected to it but it was better than nothing, I could sense beings getting close to me even like this. Normally it looked like the starry sky, with far-off souls shining like little stars of their own without me being able to tell how far or exactly where they are. Now it was different, aire steltion was shining brighter and brighter in the murky water as it closed in on my location at breakneck speed. The souls seemed brighter for some reason, I focused on them and noticed that they were entirely ihe . "What?" my eyes widened in shotil I noticed a film of energy coating each soul when they got even closer, "A Geller Field, maybe?" So that was a ship currently traveling through the and straight towards me, they probably noticed me when I ected to the . Was I a Bea just by existing or what? I shed out with my pyrokinesis and burned everything in the vault to ash, the old paper easily buro ash and I was left w what to do. These were probably Imperials, I didn't seoo much chaos taint on them, aher did they have a certain bdsm loving chaos god's tentacles ed around their balls. Tau didn't have souls this strong and they couldn't even travel through while Nes didn't even have souls. I wasn't sure how Orks would feel but I was certain I could tell the differeweeient mushrooms and humans. "What to do, what to do," I kept the steltion of souls in my sight, from far away I only noticed a few of them but now I could tell there were hundreds of them, most of them being only small flickers in the darkness with a single one being a brightly shining star. The Navigator. My three options were Hiding, Fighting, or Ag. Fighting was a no-go, I couldn't pilot a damned spaceship so I'd still be stu this rock, just with a bit more energy in my reserves. Hiding was simirly dumb but I could probably sneak onto the ship and wait for them to leave. "That'd be super b though," I didn't get all this power to hide away on a ship like a rat, depending on others to maybe carry me into safety. I was a shapeshifting eldritch monster so I should act like it. "Ag it is," I smiled and ran my sense over my body, I made sure it looked just like a normal human should and had my powers ready in case I'd have to turn it entirely into a human. I walked bato the offid sat down in the fy chair, waiting for my soon-to-be visitors. "What should my story be though?" I pyed with a loy hair in thought, "I guess I'll have to improvise based on who they are." I grinned in anticipation as I sat in the half-ruined office like it was my own. I hope they have sensors, it'd be awkward if they didn't find me and leave. Selene VossThe ship ed and the Geller Field flickered. Whatever that damned shockwave traveling through the whole damned was it sure did a number on it, it should have kept going for years, a here they were, a few days into their journey, and already it was near-failing. She made eye tact with, Morrin, one of her personal guards, and he nodded iurn. She knew having the Navigator on the deck went against any protocols but the unication systems were beyond fucked and while the tech-priests were all w tirelessly on it they'd be dead by the time it got fixed. It was a miracle the ship even funed, her Wanderer was a good ship but it wasn't made to withstand whatever the fuck this was. Morrin had his s-rifle poi the back of the Navigator's head, she didn't need a demon crawling out of his bht now with all the other bullshit oe already. It'd be a great loss but she'd rather exit the blind tha ripped apart by a demon. "...he- here..." the psyker wheezed and colpsed. She g him, unscious. "Disengage -Drive," she ordered as calmly as she could manage, "ready the sensors, I want to know where the fuck we ended up!" P3t1