In some ways this feels like a companion piece to The Watcher By C.Z Dunn, despite them not actually being at all connected.

On the planet Dorset in the England System within the UK Segmentum a nightmare tale is told of that one time a young fisherman saw the giants crash from the sky, fighting each other, and causing devastation in their wake.

Sending your explicit executioners as observers is bad poltics whoever sends them and, as with the Night Lords before them, I totally understand why the Alpha Legion respond by kicking the shit out of the Space Wolfcops.

It's definitely interesting to see normal life going on and the Heresy just crash land and fuck shit up, as well as seeing random civilians rescuing Astartes.

This is a well written and well told tale, but it doesn't do much to enrich or further anything, and just falls short of being an entertaining enough story to be worth my time on its own, but I need a bit more bite or revelation in my Horus Heresy, please and thank you. ( )