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likesscoundrels

Between the town and the dorms, Thursday late afternoon

Mar 24, 2011 13:46

Leia was exhausted by the time she'd returned to Fandom. She almost didn't want to come back, but even though the rebellion had won a major battle, the base on Yavin 4 had been exposed, and the leaders needed to scatter and regroup later. Even Luke had agreed it would be better for her to go back to Fandom for her own safety, for a little while ( Read more... )

who: jaina, where: outside the dorms, what: my homeworld is deaaaaaaaaad, who: anakin, who: tahiri

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sith_happened March 24 2011, 19:22:11 UTC

More than half of his attention had been on waiting to feel Leia's presence on the island since she'd left last week, but when Anakin felt her arrive, he was overwhelmed with nerves.

He wasn't sure she'd want to see him at all, but he needed to see if she was still in one piece, which was why he was now on an intercept course towards her but keeping trees between them. If she wanted to use that as an excuse not to notice him, he wasn't going to hold it against her.

likesscoundrels March 24 2011, 19:34:20 UTC

Leia had a funny feeling Anakin was close by before she spotted him. And when she did, her first instinct was to run to him for a much needed hug.

Her second was to step back and look up, staring him straight in the eyes. "Did you know?" she said, managing to keep her voice steady. She'd been nursing the hope that he hadn't, that Alderaan's fate had been different in his world, so he hadn't kept her homes's destruction from her.

sith_happened March 24 2011, 19:44:50 UTC

"What happened?" Anakin asked, stalling for time. The look in her eyes gave him an idea, but he clung just as ridiculously to the idea that maybe something had gone differently for her.

likesscoundrels March 24 2011, 19:51:02 UTC

"Alderaan," Leia said, watching his face.

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weetuskenraider March 24 2011, 20:00:04 UTC

Tahiri had been keeping a metaphorical Force-assisted eye out for Leia's presence ever since finding out what she'd gone off to do. The second she sensed it, she . . .

. . . didn't actually take off like a blaster bolt to go find her. She suspected there were other people who ought to have that right, and were, if she knew them at all, likely to be doing exactly that. But she did make her way up from the beach spot where she'd been meditating and gravitate toward that familiar Force presence and, when spotting Leia, approached at the most restrained brisk walk she could possibly muster.

She didn't say anything yet; she wanted to see how Leia would react first.

[OOC: Feel free to wait on this one a bit in case you don't want to joss yourself, bb.]

likesscoundrels March 25 2011, 00:08:17 UTC

Leia wasn't feeling any less drained after talking to Anakin, and she gave Tahiri a weary nod when she saw her. "Tahiri," she said.

weetuskenraider March 25 2011, 01:07:34 UTC

Well, there wasn't any outright rage yet, and if Leia felt any of that toward her Tahiri couldn't sense it. That was a relief.

"Leia," she answered quietly. "I'm . . . glad you're back. You've -- where did you just come from?"

The question was more to determine what Leia had been up to last, back home, than wondering where she'd been, and Tahiri was fairly confident Leia could guess that.

likesscoundrels March 25 2011, 01:32:34 UTC

"Yavin 4," Leia said, watching Tahiri for her reaction. If everything that had just happened to her had happened to the Leia Tahiri knew, then that location had to be important.

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solo_sword March 24 2011, 20:38:20 UTC

Jaina had been out for training like any normal day when she felt Leia's presence. She'd been dreading it a bit for the last week, and it occurred to her that she might need space... but the urge to check up won out by a lot. So she sought Leia out instead, greeting her with a quiet, "Welcome back."

likesscoundrels March 25 2011, 00:09:21 UTC

Leia managed a very faint smile. "Can every Jedi on the island feel me right now?" she said.

solo_sword March 25 2011, 00:31:50 UTC

Jaina nodded. "Sorry. And I think some of us were waiting for you," she admitted, and paused. "Should I even ask how you're doing?"

likesscoundrels March 25 2011, 00:47:18 UTC

She shrugged slightly. "Part of me wants to scream, part of me wants to cry, and part of me wants to just huddle in a corner and pretend none of this happened," she said. "But most of me wants to make sure that Alderaan is never forgotten, and maybe it will open more eyes to just what kind of atrocities the Empire is capable of."

She looked at Jaina, tired but still wanting to know. "What did your mother do?"

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