thefinaljedi | Appointments

I'm almost afraid to ask how the rancor and Force sensitive women you mentioned fit in.

[She stands, feeling tired and lonely and still hurt, despite the fact that talking to Luke has helped.]

I'm sure that nothing good can come from knowing the future. I'm not sure how you deal with it.

There are tribes of Force sensitive women there, calling themselves Nightsisters. They ride rancors.

[Simple and dumb explanations are often the best.]

And...you know the only person here from my future is Han. And it's apparently been a relatively quiet two years.

[She just stares at him for a few moments, absorbing what she heard and trying to make it sound clear to her.]

They ride rancors. I didn't know what was possible.

And, that's not what I mean. I've heard stories about some Jedi being able to see flashes of the future. Has that never happened to you?

It is. Through the Force, anything is.

[He would know.]

And as to that, yes. I do have moving visions of the future sometimes, and if I concentrate hard, I'm able to see into the future for a few seconds with some real clarity. But...always in motion, the future is.

Not everything.

[The Force couldn't return her home world and all the murdered people who'd been innocently living their lives there before Moff Tarkin and Vader had blown it up before her very eyes. Even after six years, there's hole in her heart that will never be filled.]

My father...Bail Organa told me that one of the old masters of the Jedi Knights could see the future. Well, possible futures he believed that could happen.

[Luke shakes his head.]

We can, yes. But again, not with any real clarity. As I said, the future is never written in stone. It moves and changes with each action and reaction. Predicting it accurately is impossible."

So, what you're saying is that it's a skill that's not really worth attempting to train or to consider useful.

[She can feel a headache building with this talk, but she pushes it back. She will not let it distract her.]

I can't just stop being angry, Luke. Good intentions or not...It's not easy for me.

I didn't say that, Leia. It's just not something you can count on to give you all the answers. And not one you can control, either. The Force will share visions with you when it wants to.

[He just shakes his head.]

It's not easy for anyone, Leia. But it's something you have to learn to do. Anger leads to the Dark Side, and that is not a road you want to walk down. Ever.

I've never relied on something I couldn't verify to help me. Force visions always sounded like magic to me. It was hard to take them seriously to be honest.

[She knows the wisdom in what he's saying. She really, truly does.]

No, I don't want to end up like Anakin. Or worse. But this will take more than just a night to get over. Even if it works out in the end, even if it's what the Force wanted, I will have to deal with it in the way that I can, when I can.

Besides, I have time now.

The Force isn't magic, Leia. It's just alive, and it guides us how it wants.

[~~Despite what Troy Denning might tell us.~~]

And no, it won't be easy, but it will work out. I don't want to sound patronizing, but you will calm down. You do that, you know. You have Father's temper. And Mother's ability to let it go.

I know the Force isn't magic. Now. But as a child, it was all so fantastical.

[She closes her eyes and lets a few moments of silence pass.]

You're not patronizing. Despite not growing up together, I think you know me better than even Winter does. It would be scary if I didn't know you a little.

Well, it's been a decade or more by my time now, I think I've gotten to know you in that time. We are twins, after all.

Yes, we are twins.

[Which is still a little strange if she stops to think about it. She'd felt a connection with Luke from the moment he and Han showed up on the Death Star to rescue her. Ever since learning the truth on Endor's moon, everything makes a lot more sense to her.

And it would continue to do so, it appears.]

This is still very strange. All of it.

All of what? Family? Luceti? Han?

All of the above.

[She says it with a slight teasing tone. She's still angry, but it's hard to keep up that with Luke for some reason.]

Han is, of course, the strangest of them all.

[Luke snorts a laugh.]

Nah, wait till you meet Mara. Or Talon.

[She raises an eyebrow at him in annoyance. One day, perhaps, comments like that won't irk her so much.]

For now, Han still retains his title as strangest member of this...family. Even the Bantha is more normal.

[There, she's conceded that he's part of the mess that is the Skywalker family. Progress.]

...hold on. You're forgetting someone.

Oh? Who's that?

Threepio. He's the strangest thing I've ever met, anyway. Or...maybe the prissiest.

[She can't help but laugh heartily for a moment.]

It's true that he's rather prissy, but you never met my aunts. Dreadful creatures. They loved me dearly, but so prim and proper. It was a nightmare.

No one can be as prissy as Threepio.

I beg to differ. You've never been to finishing school for Alderaanian nobility. The Headmistress there was a million times worse. Of course, I was hardly the perfect picture of the crown princess either.

[She looks at him for a moment before shaking her head.]

From what I understand, most brothers would've been upset that their sister had been kidnapped. No matter the responsible party.

Consider that was at least seven years in my past, by someone I have considered to be my brother for at least a decade, and that there's very little I can actually do about it, Leia.

[Shaking his head, Luke looks up at the ceiling.]

I'll talk to him, but I don't see a reason I should be upset, given that I don't know both sides of the story. I'm sorry.

[What was she expecting from Luke? They are hardly a normal family, Luceti's time differences aside. Besides, he's a Jedi. And from her father's stories, Jedi tended to be rather dispassionate if they were any good.

She shakes her head before hastily giving him a hug.]

I'm not even sure how I should react. Can we just call this training session as overvsnd try again tomorrow? I don't think I'll be any good today.

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