Russ doesn't hate Alpharius

SPOILER ALERT!
Don't read any further if you plan on reading "Wolf King", the new Horus Heresy novella. Just enjoy the picture of the Space Wolves fighting warp monstrosities below and turn away!

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In said novella, one of my favourite passages is the following:

"Russ hacked his was through the enemy, barely seeing those whom he slew. They were a blur: a mass of armour and muscle, inert fodder for his blade. He has already sensed the true enemy, and besides that presence, nothing else mattered. He ignored the wounds he took and the losses of his pack around him; he just kept moving, grinding through the walls of sapphire and gold.
He had never hated Alpharius, not like Guilliman had hated him. The Alpha Legion had been an irrelevance, an afterthought, a gang of shadow-huggers at the beck and call of Horus who were worthy of nothing more than faint scorn. At least a gnus had been a proper enemy, out in the open, getting his hand thick with sorcery where it could be seen. Alpharius had been … nothing. A whisper, a suspicion, an echo."

It provides a great insight in to Russ' and other primarch's thoughts on Alpharius (late to the party as he was). The novella also contains some really excellent out-maneouvering of the Space Wolves by the Alpha Legion, some very interesting introspection by Russ, and a surprise twist toward the end concerning Luther's Dark Angels faction.

The price is steep though, so I'm not sure its worth it from that point of view. But otherwise a nice novella that should have been sold for a third of the price they're charging. And one that also seemingly advances the overall plot; or at the very minimum enhances the plot by bringing in others that we hadn't considered in a long while.