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Shadows in the Sand (Warhammer 40k, story)

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He came from the sand and the silence, carrying yesterday's ghosts.

On Morrak II — a forgotten world choked by dust storms and old war-wounds — survival is a daily negotiation with hunger, rust, and the whims of machine-priests who no longer understand their own relics.

Elissa Brandt has kept her town alive through grit and stubborn mercy, holding Dusthaven together long after hope should've blown away on the wind.

But when the quiet young engineer called Koron repairs miracles he shouldn't even recognize, the balance shifts.

To Dusthaven, he's salvation.
To the Mechanicus, heresy incarnate.
To the galaxy, a glitch that was never meant to exist.

As ancient powers awaken — human, alien, and worse — a frontier settlement becomes the spark at the edge of a war for the soul of the Imperium. And in that gathering storm, Elissa and her people must decide how far they'll follow the man who fell into their lives like a missing piece of a forgotten future.

A tale of survival, found family, and the fragile light of humanity in the far future's darkest hour.
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