Ninke smiled nervously up at the large goatman, and thought back to the preachings of Hirisit. It was said mutants were abominations to be shunned and hated, turned aside and even sought out and destroyed in the Emperors name. She had learned in the Guard abhumans were a semi-common sight, mutants who swerved the Imperium and were usually not so different as to cause offense. Beastmen however... she had never imagined she'd ever even meet such abnormal mutants, let alone fight alongside them. She had heard and been taught such deviant forms were heretical,and deserved no better than death... yet here she stood now, a beastman in her regiment and even in the same company as she. She gulped slightly as he introduced himself, clearly not use to meeting such creatures. Her hands twitched and grew clammy, as lessons long since drilled into her mind as a proud zealot wanted to take hold. She wanted to scream for a commissar too... no [i]she[/i] wanted to pull her side arm and put a round in the abhumans skull on principle alone... now she even almost had the authority to do so... but that would be wrong. 

These particular... beastmen were fighting for the Emperor, she knew that. They were essentially fodder usually, more so than even the ordinary guardsmen. They were in first and in the worst combat zones... what did it mean for her company that most of them were in it?! Surely she wasn't valued so low as to be... [i]equal[/i] to them... she shook these thoughts from her mind as best as she could as the goat headed man introduced himself as Khaz. She managed a weak, thin smile, "[color=palevioletred]Ehm... I am N-ninke Ingran, uh Sergeant Ninke Ingran. P-pleasure to meet you[/color]", she stammered out, stifly lifting her right arm as an offer of a handshake.

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"[color=palevioletred]Ehm zho Persephone, vhat [i]exactly[/i] was the difference between your old knives und our new vons? Zese are quite nice...[/color]," Ninke regarded to Persephone. Luckily they had ended up on the same transport up to the frigate so she was able to find her afterwards and now wanted to know more about her new found friend. D company in its little corner seemed extremely divided to her, like just about every regiment that had been put together into the combined one had some kind of presence here. Those... Beastmen, Hirisit, Cadians, the Wisps and others were all a part of it. She wondered where the captain who had promoted her had gone to some extent... but she was sure she'd see her again soon, for now she was happy sitting with the Wisps and talking to Persephone. She thought they were a bit odd, but they were from a whole different planet she'd never heard of until quite recently so as much was to be expected. She was on the topic of their knives as a few had been grumbling about it earlier and she wanted to know why. She had her own new Cadian standard one that she thought was quite nice, and wanted to know why they were upset about it... maybe they were special somehow?

Regardless, their conversation was cut short as the Company was called together. As a newly appointed member of the command squad... supposedly, she hadn't actually met anyone else in the command squad yet, save her CO. Regardless, she pushed her way to the front using her rank to look upon... their new captain? The man cut a rather imposing figure, in his full set of Armageddon Steel legion attire and his booming, barritone voice he was quite commanding. Ninke listened intently seeing as this was her new CO... but was quite confused by the end of his speech. She was about to ask a question when Khaz, the beastman she had met earlier, asked his own. They were... straightforward to say the least. And once he was done she cleared her throat and spoke loudly, her soft voice straining to be heard over the clamour, "[color=palevioletred]Ehm... v-vhat huppened too Captain Weiss? Und... ehm vill our positons be avvected by the change in leadership?[/color]", she wanted to know if she was still in the command squad or going to be given a squad... it was a rather important question.