Finding Emptiness.

Kohra sat at the edge of a cliff, overlooking the vast grasslands of East Sarutabaruta during the time of the Crystal Wars. He had come here, despite his long-time stance of non-interference, in the hopes of finding some deeper meaning, some understanding. Yet all he felt was empty and hollow. He had not found the answers he had expected to find here. And worse, he had inadvertently risked his tenuous friendship with Caen'ir. He sighed and rested his head on his knees, hugging his legs in an all too familiar hunch. His armour dug into his cheek sharply, but he paid it no mind.

Upon entering through the Maw in East Sarutabaruta, he had felt surreal, and out of place. He had talked Caen'ir into bringing him back, to show him where he had found Kre'oss. The city had left him feeling just the same. Kohra had expected a tale of love, that Kre'oss' connection to Caen'ir in the future is what had brought him back to the present. How foolish he had been. Of course the Kre'oss of these times had no feelings for Caen'ir, how could he? And how disappointed Kohra had been when he'd found it was anger and vengeance that had driven Kre'oss to come back. Because that witch, Zald'eana, had taken on the form of the Dawn Maiden. Kohra scoffed at his childishness.

And then Kohra had forced the issue on Caen'ir of whether he and Kre'oss had made love. Why did he do that? It didn't verify or discount his theory of why Kre'oss had disappeared recently, regardless of what the answer was. At the time all Kohra could think of was himself, and prying the answer out of Caen'ir, unaware or uncaring of the consequences. He groaned at the memory. And now he had driven a wedge between himself and Caen'ir, when he had been trying so hard to form a friendship. And besides that, Kre'oss would be very non-plussed about Kohra's behaviour.

Kohra had somehow managed to place himself in the position he had sworn to himself throughout his life never to be in. One of interference.

It's quiet here, Kohra thought to himself. This is as good a place as any to figure out how fix this...