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                 SHE IS QUICK TO FURY, but now, she is also quick to fall victim to exhaustion. Though she’s far too wrapped up in misplaced anger to acknowledge it, Anakin has blanketed her in what she could only define, if able, as a blissful sort of contrition. It envelops her, leading her into a fleeting state of peace.

                   Leia is stronger than that, though  (  stronger than him in a few ways  ), & just as soon as it had appeared, the sensation is gone, shoved aside by the ever-present heat trapped within her. She is truly his daughter, all denial aside, as evidenced by the fire in her eyes.

                    But when she speaks, her speech is quiet, gentle, anything but what the anger etched against her features mere moments ago had represented. Words are a plea, eyes wide but blank, fixated on nothing in particular.

                    ❝   You can bring me back my son.   ❞

               LEIA WEIGHS THE font of her anger on the insubstantial, asking the impossible from the dead. Though Anakin may exist beyond the constraints of this lifetime, he is still bound by reality. She wants what she knows he cannot provide, && there is cruelty in hopelessness of her request. 

               She truly is her father’s daughter, swallowed whole && spit back out by a nightmare in cyclical succession. && by that kinship the spirit recognizes, he would try to come && comfort her. Survivors balancing each other against the pull of the past — if only he had not been the nightmare that haunts her still. 

               The Force shifts around her, its constant subliminal hum fading into thoughtful quiet. The apparition offers Leia a vision: eyes opening to metallic darkness, && plunge through the shadows to seek out where her son kneels before a false idol. The image buries itself deep, luminous && cutting. Loss clings to it, growing on Leia as she would walk around Ben’s kneeling form. His lips move but the words come out warped, like a connection through a comlink with faulty wiring. 

     This is all I can give you…

 
independent & private roleplay blog for anakin skywalker/darth vader of all star wars media. written by scout. || est. feb 2016.