ᴅᴀʀᴛʜ ᴀɴᴀᴛʜᴇᴍᴏᴜꜱ
Kaila took a deep, steadying breath, and was surprised to learn that when her she opened her eyes, she did so to a smile.
Revna explained then that she was indeed playing a very dangerous game, and Kaila nodded along.
"We play a similar game then, pretending to be something which we are not." she sighed.
Kaila rolled her shoulders, gaze drifting sidelong in bitter annoyance even speaking of her master. Yet it felt good, in a twisted sort of way, that she could express her hate more openly before Revna. She'd grown so bloody tired of playing the part —demure little servant, a near sycophant in her unquestioning obedience. Perhaps she was no Darth Strosius, she exercised a level of self control reminiscent of the emotionless psychopaths who apathetically comprised the upper echelons of The Order, yet there was a fire buried deep within which threatened to burn through her skin into the open every day.
A fire which shone in her eyes as they snapped towards Revna upon her reveal.
They almost appeared to shake in her skull, such was the speed of their small movements as she examined the apprentice's own amber gaze, and factored any number of outcomes to their meeting, the answers shifting with every word spoken.
Yet...
There was something a little more genuine in Revna's eyes than she'd expected. Certainly for a sith, at least. Over time her narrowed gaze softened, and the muscles in face visibly loosened as she slowly nodded to to the side, taking her eyes off Revna in a subtle indication of trust.
"I... see..."
It was a brave thing, to request one's own death in the event of a total loss in control. There were many in this galaxy who would rather live a true slave than perish, clinging to the false hope that one day something may occur to free them. Sometimes Kaila wondered even now if she were not living that life by moving so cautiously, patiently waiting for her master's weakness to be revealed, or ways she might spare her loved ones the pain of her loss.
And yet Revna's words spoke to her, as if she might have said them herself.
"You... sound like me." she finally answered, and nodding to herself one last time, looked Revna in the face one last
"If it comes to that, I think it would be a regrettable outcome, something I do not often feel when facing sith."
"Though I will not hesitate."
She held a gloved hand out to shake, ready to make their alliance a lasting thing.
"Here's to winning the game then."
Revna
