IC Inbox: Empatheias

[bailedontheempire]

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[oratorical]

[She smiles, both unable and unwilling to keep back the warm emotions his answer brings out.]

It's not particularly important, but another conversation brought it to mind. Between Luke and I, which one of us is older?

[bailedontheempire]

[He gives her a puzzled look]

You're twins. I thought you would have found that out with the rest.

[oratorical]

We do, but that's not what I meant. One of us had to be born before the other.

[Which is something she never gave much thought to before now, but with the question planted in her mind, she can't help but think on it. Especially since she can't quite guess based on how the both of them behave.]

[bailedontheempire]

[He's not sure how much it really matters. But at the same time there's no reason to withhold the information.]

In that case. Luke, but only by a few minutes.

[oratorical]

[it's important, okay. It just is. She raises her eyebrows, not because she doesn't believe him, but because maybe it's not entirely what she was expecting.]

Luke is, really? Somehow that's surprising.

[bailedontheempire]

You expected to be older?

[He hasn't had much of a chance to talk to the boy yet]

[oratorical]

I'm not sure what I expected.

[Which is the honest truth, since he's one of the few people she can feel comfortable being open with. But maybe a part of her did think she was the older one, because Luke was so excitable and open when they first met.]

Luke hasn't always been as mature as he is now.

[bailedontheempire]

I do seem to recall that that was how time used to work.

[Now there's a lot of compelling evidence to the contrary.]

[oratorical]

[she gives a knowing, almost wry sort of smile at that. Because oops they're two of the biggest examples of time not working like it should here.]

That's not quite what I meant. It's more... his Jedi training helped Luke become more serious than before.

[because Luke was always kind of an excitable puppy back when they first met. He still was, just maybe not as much of one.]

[bailedontheempire]

That's always been one trait the Jedi had an abundance of.

[It was almost eerie, actually. Then again, he'd mostly known them in times of crisis.]

I'm not sure a few minutes would matter either way on that front though.

[oratorical]

Yes, I've noticed as much from the other Jedi here.

[It's super weird and kind of unsettling, honestly. Too calm and too serious and too peaceful even in more difficult situations, at least as far as Leia has seen.]

It may not make much of a difference, but it's still good to know.

[since, after all, there's so very little she knows about her birth family. Nothing more than what she's experienced of them here, and those vague memories she has of what her mother must have been like.]