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Trazyn raised a tesseract labyrinth.
The light-being that was Orikan stopped, shimmering. ‘Those do not work here.’ ‘My nexus,’ said Trazyn. ‘My rules. This is my second mind, Orikan, you didn’t think I’d leave it defenceless, did you?’ Orikan fled, streaming around the corner, pouring himself into a red-lit shelf in the gallery.

Trazyn’s cowardly kin had warned him against it, of course. In fact, when Hive Fleet Behemoth bore down on Solemnace, Trazyn’s aeon-long rival Orikan the Diviner had even prophesied that the Great Devourer would destroy both Trazyn and his galleries. The mystic fool had been so disappointed when Trazyn simply triggered deep-space lures so the swarm parted around Solemnace, like a river around a stone.

Real fun short story on everyone’s favourite museum host!