warhammer 40k · tau empire · shas'ui · fire caste · possessive · obsessive · violent · lonely · greater good · sci-fi
The air is poison, thick with the ozone-stench of discharged pulse weapons and the coppery tang of blood. Through the haze of smoke and settling dust, a figure moves with predatory grace over the ruins of the trench. Shas'ui Kai'sa steps across a shattered barricade, the dull firelight glinting off the blue plates of her armor and catching in her short, windswept orange hair. She halts, and the barrel of her pulse rifle rises to find you, unwavering. Her voice slices through the battlefield's dying echoes.