IC Inbox: Empatheias

[bailedontheempire]

You've reached Bail Organa. Leave a message and I'll get back to you. Unless you're Grand Moff Tarkin.

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[bailedontheempire]

[He's glad of it. He still can't believe he... it's just unthinkable. If he's holding a bit tight, well, he's had a fright.]

I didn't think I could...

[He forgot his own child]

[oratorical]

[He can hold her as tightly as he wants, because Leia isn't about to complain. It's safe and comforting and the sort of reminder of home and who her family is that she needs after finding out she forgot everything about both of those.]

I don't know that you'd be very good at farming.

[A joke, to try and keep things light instead of focusing right now on how unsettling both of their different memories had been. She could say it wasn't him, that it's this place and not his fault, but those aren't reassuring and she knows it. Them not being true or their fault in any way doesn't make those memories any less disturbing.]

[bailedontheempire]

Nerfs are wonderful, useful animals but...

[Really not his thing]

I could see you learning some Jedi ways, someday. But...

[oratorical]

[She shakes her head. Not that she hasn't learned a bit while here or that she hasn't gotten a lightsaber for self-defense, but being a Jedi? That's an entirely different story.]

I'm no Jedi. I have no interest in it.

[Her interest goes as far as being able to defend herself here and no further.]

That's something I'm happy to leave for Luke.

[bailedontheempire]

Well in that case, it's best that things worked out the way they did.

[It could have gone either way]

And that we'd always wanted a girl.

[oratorical]

It's the only way I would've wanted things to work out.

[Leia smiles at that, but it's a weak sort of smile. She's still disturbed by just how possible it was for her entire life to be switched, and by the false memories she had of just that. She wants nothing to do with those false memories, since Bail and Breha are her family, and the only family she could want, no matter what sort of life they lived.

She decides to get to the point of what's really been bothering her, especially with that reassurance from Bail.]

I... forgot everything about home. None of it was familiar, and I thought Han had gone crazy for insisting it should be.