"Do you think you were the only one that the council used and tried to blame?" Orren snaps in response. "The only person that Atris wanted to see burn for her own satisfaction?"
He took a step forward. "The council decried me as a threat every day of the Mandalorian Wars, and when the fighting was done they promoted me to try and sway me to denounce the others - to turn me against the very memory of my friends and what we had set out to accomplish when all I felt was grief, and guilt, and emptiness! When all that I could do was hate myself because I chose to be blind rather than face the truth in front of my own eyes as the war drew to an end!"
Another step. "The council has made more mistakes and cruel decisions than I could ever begin to count, and I would need to be truly blind to pretend otherwise, and the only reason I didn't leave it all behind was the hope of what the Order might be should the lessons of Malachor ever be learned. But you ... "
Orren ignites his saber's second blade. "From the moment I met you, I sensed that whatever lay at the end of the path you walked was something that I had no desire to see. With what I sense in you now ... I finally understand why."
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Date: 2020-11-17 05:14 am (UTC)He took a step forward. "The council decried me as a threat every day of the Mandalorian Wars, and when the fighting was done they promoted me to try and sway me to denounce the others - to turn me against the very memory of my friends and what we had set out to accomplish when all I felt was grief, and guilt, and emptiness! When all that I could do was hate myself because I chose to be blind rather than face the truth in front of my own eyes as the war drew to an end!"
Another step. "The council has made more mistakes and cruel decisions than I could ever begin to count, and I would need to be truly blind to pretend otherwise, and the only reason I didn't leave it all behind was the hope of what the Order might be should the lessons of Malachor ever be learned. But you ... "
Orren ignites his saber's second blade. "From the moment I met you, I sensed that whatever lay at the end of the path you walked was something that I had no desire to see. With what I sense in you now ... I finally understand why."