mardinofchatzuk:

“Tell me you’re not going to ride that.”

“I am so going to ride that.”

“Y’know, you have a lot of bad ideas, especially when it comes to riding sparrows, but hopping merrily onto a ride bristling with extradimensional ontomorphically corrupted Hive chitin has got to be the worst.”

“I think you mean ‘the baddest.’”

“That is most assuredly not what I mean.”

“Look, after the streak I’ve had in the Crucible, I’m about this far past giving a crap.”

“You were on a streak?”

“A streak of repeated crushing, yeah. Woke up this morning feeling like one of those old flattened cans we used to use for target practice in the Cosmodrome.”

“Oh.”

“So point is I’m about ready to try out some ascendant sparrow shenanigans and see if I can’t have a little fun along the way.”

“Will it be fun if this thing’s corruption infects you while you ride?”

“It’s not going to take me, if that’s what you’re worried about. No king left to do the taking, remember?”

“Yeah, but maybe the ontomorphic effect can still spread passively… like that taken goo we still find all over the place. What if it gets on your pants? Are you prepared to suffer the consequences of taken pants?”

“Are we really having this conversation?”

(Harbinger’s Echo)