Heartbeat

The ease of their butchery was evident. Umbragg felt the fluttering heartbeat of a dying Certusian nearby. A mindless slave-soldier, naked and smeared from head to foot in gore, burst from an alley and raced across the cobbles with a nail-spiked club. By the time Umbragg had stalked up to the scene, the feral world cult conscript had beaten the brains from the broken body of the Guardsman. Umbragg felt the mortal’s heart hammer in his chest and then stop.



Legion of the Damned, Chapter Twenty