Prompt 24a - Void

[peppermint_shamrock]

Title: Is it a crime to be just hesitating, while we're pretending that we never see?
Prompt: Void
Author: peppermint_shamrock
Rating: G
Characters: N/A
Pairing: None
Star Wars Media Property: Prequels (ROTS)
Word count: 100
Warnings/Spoilers: Genocide
Summary: Many on Coruscant saw the Temple burn.
Author Notes: N/A
Beta: None, it's just me

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The Temple burns, and people look away.

Not everyone. In the dark pre-dawn hours, one man races to offer his aid. Many others who might have done so are led away in handcuffs, their names signed to a petition now deemed an act of treason.

But there are no arrests at the Temple.

One cannot make sense of senseless cruelty, but people cannot wrap their heads around senselessness. It leaves a void that people will fill with their own justifications. Some will place the blame with the Empire where it belongs. But for others...

It is easier to look away.

 

Comments

[elrhiarhodan]

A parable for the modern world, sadly.

[peppermint_shamrock]

There's certainly a universality to it.

[imhilien]

You wonder how many tried to help, but were punished for it.

[peppermint_shamrock]

The troopers definitely tried to shoot at Bail, so it's very likely

[mergatrude]

Ouch!

[peppermint_shamrock]

Thanks!