Harry Potter : Bloodraven-Chapter 226: Unexpected Guest from the Stars (IX) (CH - 246)

The recording clicked off, plunging the room into heavy silence. Carol sat frozen, tears silently tracing paths down her cheeks as the dam of suppressed memories finally broke, and she made a run for it out of the house.

"He lied to me," Carol yelled, with her friend Maria, followed by Fury and Talos, trailing behind.

"Everything that I knew was a lie."

Maverick and Isabella stood quietly near the house, watching the drama unfold, and although Maverick had known this moment was coming, witnessing the raw emotion on Carol's face as her entire worldview collapsed was something else entirely.

"I feel really bad for her, Ricky. Can't you do something to cheer her up?" Isabella whispered softly, resting her head on his shoulder.

"No. She needs to face this herself. But later, once all this is over, I don't mind giving her a few calming drafts… well, depending if she really needs them by then..."

Back to Danvers, "Now," Talos said, approaching slowly, his usual sarcastic edge gone, replaced by something resembling genuine sympathy. "Now you understand, right?"

"Understand what?" Carol's voice cracked. "What do I understand now?"

"Yon-Rogg killed Mar-Vell," Talos explained patiently. "He killed her because she realized she was fighting on the wrong side of an unjust war. He killed her to protect the Kree Empire's secrets and to acquire her light-speed engine."

"No," Carol shook her head defiantly. "Your people are terrorists. They kill innocents. I saw the ruins on Torfa."

"Ruins that the Accusers are responsible for," Talos countered. "My people lived as refugees on Torfa. Homeless ever since we resisted Kree rule and they destroyed our planet. And the handful of us that are left will be slaughtered next... unless you help me finish what Mar-Vell started."

Maverick, listening not far away, raised a brow to that. The MCU did indeed portray the Skrulls as survivors, always on the run, but that "innocent refugee" narrative didn't quite match what he remembered of the Skrulls' often morally ambiguous history across the entire Marvel multiverse.

Skrulls in the Marvel comics weren't as innocent as Talos was portraying them... even in this timeline. While Talos's current situation deserved sympathy, Maverick understood that they were conquerors themselves, much like the Kree, expanding their rule across planets by any means necessary.

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