Mercia's temper flared as the woman moved after the flash and tapped at her collar with that little quip of hers and for a moment she looked as if she was about to regret something before her augmetic hand made a absolutely vicious grab for the woman's shock collar and twisted what little sack their was hard, causing the metal to bite into her flesh. The Inquisitor had once felt something for this woman but it was over now or so she told herself and as she twisted that collar in her strong augmetic hand she yanked the psyker forward at the same time, pulling Evangeline face to face with her until their noses pressed together. Part of this was show obviously for the Eldar who already had her doubts about Mercia and for her other Acolytes so that they would more easily follow her orders. But another part of it was most obviously unworked anger at Evangeline. After a few heated and short whispers she let the psyker go, throwing her back with a harsh shove and brushing off the leather of her coat before fixing the collar and sighing.<br/><br/>The Eldar, Aine had watched the whole thing with a subtle , almost imperceptible smirk until her vision was drawn to the daemonhost and.. though she knew not what the creature was it gave her a sense of wrongness in her very soul almost. The Eldar subtly moved behind Vern as if his rotund body would stop the gaze of the weird girl and remained quiet with her hands firmly grasped behind her back and trying to school her face into a less unnerved look.  Vern on the other hand looked almost like he'd crawl up a wall if he could to escape the fight between Inquisitor and acolyte, eagerly moving to shake Lucien's hand and to bow slightly at the waist to  Aura. " You're most welcome. The matron of my family was actually an Inquisitor like your mistress here. I am a proud servant of the Imperium." He smiled and pulled slightly at the lapels of his coat, his gaze pausing on Impetus before he turned to face Mercia at Lucien's question.<br/><br/><br/>The Inquisitor nodded in turn and motioned to the table with the Admech still hard at work under it at the panel before the quiet being closed it and slinked away from the great piece of once-common tech into the adjacent room to leave their masters alone." I will be briefing you about your soon to be mission on the surface of Draal." Mercia pressed a glyph in the center of the table and the holoprojector sprang to live, presenting a 3D view of the planet in detail from orbit. The blue erry glow of the hologram illuminatured the otherwise poorly lit room  and cast sharp shadow's on the Eldar's angled face , the xeno shaking her head. " This whole situation reeks of the ruinous powers Inquisitor. What if a fleet of traitor ships suddenly shows up? What are we to do then?"<br/><br/>Mercia waved her hand at the question. " You were supposedly a corsair queen before this all xeno. A boarding action should not scare you, or are you a coward?"<br/><br/>The Eldar scowled and opened her mouth to speak before Vern shook his head and gave her a pointed look and instead spoke up himself." We are armed with a Nova Cannon. We can total the planet it to deny Chaos any resources they could possibly seek should that be their goal, inquisitor<br/><br/>" I doubt that is a necessary measure, this planet is too critical to the war effort for the nearby crusades but it can be considered." Mercia says all but dismissing the notion and pointing at a location on the map. " This is a part of the hive known as Daen. Supposedly an outbreak of plague has started here and reports indicate oddly enough from a manufactorum that produces vaccines and medicines for the front line that usually go to support Imperial Guard regiments throughout the Imperium." Her other hand, the augmetic worked on a knob hidden in a recess of the table, the hologram suddenly showing a shot of the city skyline and the view to say the least was staggering. Hive towers burned and las shots could be seen cracking in the streets at staggering and awkward targets that seemed hard pressed to be felled no matter what was thrown at them. " Our Augers are providing a live feed right now. Reports are this disease makes cadavers rise after expiring."  Again the Inquisitor zooms in , this time to  a street and the image is blurry but shows a great towering manufactoru in the distance, the windows alight with fire and stumbling corpses advancing upon the only remaining occupied structure in that zone which appeared to be an old enforcer's building now the windows were boarded with flak-board and the doorways all filled with sandbags. Men and women in poorly maintained flak armor could be seen firing las bolts at the targets and every nown and then the bright, rapid discharges of a multi-las could be seen utterly destroying one of the walking corpses. " The PDF is losing acolytes. And we need to find out the source of this plague and how to contain it before there are no humans left on that planet."<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>