prologue: When Darkness Falls
It is dark, and a voice comes from the depths of the blackness, echoing on forever.
Calm, and cold; but almost amused. The click-click-click of claws against one another is the only other sound; somehow hypnotic and at the same time, terrifying.
A red light shines from the depths, too bright to behold.
"So you're out from the medbay at last, hmm?
Doesn't this sound familiar?
Listen to me. There is something I want you to do..."
All of a sudden, there is no longer silence, and quiet. Just screaming that goes on, and on, and on-
"-ake up!"
"W-what?" He didn't register the words at first, weakened blue optics squinting against the suddenly bright light and the faceplate that filled his vision. He just wanted to sleep, he had a headache and he'd had one of those bad dreams again... "Wha-what's happening I don't get it what's going on what's happening?"
"Someone slaughtered the Autotroopers guarding the High Council's chamber! Nobody noticed - there was no alarm, so nobody knew! Anyone could have walked in there while they were having the meeting! They're rounding up everyone - they say one of us did it, or one of us must have seen something!"
Blurr sat up abruptly, shaking his head, still trying to make sense of the world. What was going on?
In his dizziness, he never noticed his servos were still slightly damp, as if he'd been scrubbing them clean.