Zora set Kiba down as gently as possible, then raced over to a shelf and pulled down a medicine kit. Pulling it ope, Zora held a gauze pad up to Kiba's face, dabbing gently at his bloody cheek. 

  "Kiba, I'm so sorry. I should never have dragged you into this."

  Kiba sighed, "Princess, I was doing my job. Keeping you safe. I don't regret that."

  It absolutely tore Zora up inside that Kiba wasn't angry with her. That she'd gotten him hurt, and all he had to say was that he was doing his job. Zora smiled, "You look awful."

   "Oh, I apologize for not being in full uniform and being covered in blood," Kiba grinned. Then his tone turned serious, "For the first time I actually feel sorry for Haggar's subjects."

  "What do you mean?" 

 "I mean I always thought what went on in that lab was for the good of the Galra Empire. I'm sure it is, it has to be..." Kiba trailed off, his yellow eyes distant. 

  "Kiba, what did you see?" Zora had never, in her entire life, heard Kiba voice a doubt about the Galra Empire. So he truly must have seen something awful in that lab.

  Kiba cleared his throat, "The other guy in there. On the back table. He was human, and he was just a kid. Light blonde hair, brown eyes. Didn't seem dangerous."

 "Your point?"

 "Princess he was screaming, his throat was raw from screaming. He was begging for them to let him go, and then screaming for his friends. What they were doing, it wasn't for the good of the Empire, it wasn't even an experiment. They were torturing him."

  "Maybe they needed information. If he was an enemy of the empire, it may have been necessary." Zora's words were empty, she didn't even believe them. 

   "No. I've been a part of an interrogation Princess, tortured enemies for information before. This wasn't an interrogation, they weren't asking him any questions."

  Zora sat there, horrified, in complete silence. She sat down next Kiba, her back pressed against the wall. Zora sat in her empty room, on a cursed warship. Next to her body guard, who had somehow become her only friend. Two pairs of gleaming yellow eyes glowing out of the darkness, filled with apprehension and horror.