#( kr'lo: my hurt has nothing to do with y'all but i'll be damned if i don't blame u anyway )

[xenotrove]

“I want to know why you’re hurt.” / karis @ kr'lo mayhaps

     Kr’lo looked at Karis with narrowed eyes, their weight shifting from one leg to the other and the twitch of their tail ever so slight. Their four ears laid back against the sides of their head, and for a moment, they appeared as little more than prey caught in a desperate situation. The heavy tension stayed, even as Kr’lo broke the silence.     “You don’t — you have no right to ask me that,” they responded with a hiss. The twitching of their tail grew into a violent thrashing as they continued on with their reply. “After everything I’ve been through, everything he has been through, after everything you and your order have done! No one asked us why we were hurt before the war started! None of you cared enough to ask! You don’t get to ask now!”

     They thrust an arm forward to grab at Karis’ top and yank her closer, disregarding the direct danger they were putting themself in by doing so. “I lived through my first partner’s death. I mourned his passing, grieved for the part of my spirit he took with him. And just when I thought everything was going to get better, your war came to my homeworld. If your precious Republic had simply acknowledged others’ grievances, we all would have been spared the pain of war. The pain of Grievous.”