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[Talking about Han and Luke will never cease to make Leia smile. They are both so different and yet they complemented one another. And they were good friends as well. It wasn't hard to see it for anyone either.]

Unique is probably a good word. I can't say that I've met anyone else is such a...different way. [Lando was another person met under unique circumstances, but they seemed tame when compared to escaping from the Death Star.]

I don't think I've ever met anyone quite like him since. Which is probably a good thing, in the long run. The galaxy only needs so many over-inflated egos in one spot. The Senate can carry the rest of the slots.

[Padmé could tell her own stories about meeting people in different ways. It was surprising how well those meetings could work out actually, and Padmé had ended up with some very pleasant results because of it. A husband, as well.]

It is funny how these events turn out... How, at the most unsuspecting time, things can change.

Luke would probably say the Force was behind it all. After sometime training with him, I'm not so sure he's wrong.

One could state that that is a very Jedi thing to say.

Considering I've heard both Obi-Wan and Master Yoda use the same line, I will agree with you there.

[So, it might have been through the holos that she heard Yoda use the line, but that doesn't make that statement any less true.]

Perhaps after a long enough time of being connected to the Force, that's something all Jedi say? Maybe one day I too will say it.

Yes.

[She thought back, to when she had first met Obi-Wan, and his master. Her interaction with other Jedi were fewer and far between.]

At least the sentiment behind it.

[And how things must have changed...]

You may well, even if I’m not the one to speak to about Jedi affairs.

Perhaps, although, honestly, I prefer to think that I have some say in how I live my life. Personal accountability must mean something, after all.

[Which is a sentiment she'll probably never get over.]

I...it is still strange to think that I have any say in Jedi affairs, considering my teaching began so much later than anyone else's that I know.

Anakin was the oldest anyone had ever been trained, at least in my time.

[Which clearly isn't the case in the future. Then again, with what happens... It will be a dark day when all that light goes out- had gone out by the reckoning of some.]

It seems that the Order has changed though. It does seem strange, on the one hand, and yet... Well, I suppose remaining the same does leave one to stagnant.

According to my brother, I am over thirty when I begin actively training to become a Jedi. As it stands, I'm almost twenty-five now. I think it would've been easier when I was nine years old.

[She knows what happened with Anakin. And sometimes wonder if they had found him sooner if things would have been much easier or if everything was indeed due to the Force.]

The Order...went through a major change while Luke and I were very young. A lot of things that happened during your time were lost, forgotten or disposed of as [tiny, dead bodies of younglings] too backwards thinking. I'm not sure which side of the line I stand with just yet, but I'm a little busy with other things as well.

It would have been far earlier than nine, had things been like they were in my time.

[In much the same way, Padmé wouldn't have known her children. They would have gone off to train to be Jedi when they were far younger. Although she understood what Leia was trying to say. Padmé couldn't say she knew what they were trained, but being younger did tend to help when learning something new. Not always, but certainly sometimes.]

I've no doubt you'll make up your mind eventually, and I've no doubt that what side you stand on will be the side you believe in.

[Not really? Because... well... Yeah. Reasons.]

I've heard how Jedi were trained before I was born. It seems rather harsh to take a child that young from their family. But, if you want the sort of detached warrior they seemed to have been, that would be the way to do it.

[Not exactly humane or kind, but proficient. If one wanted machines wearing humanoid faces. Although, Obi Wan seemed rather bad at that sort of detachedness that they were encouraged to have too.]

Perhaps that is true. [She can't help but smile, knowing herself the way she does.] However, it will probably not be to everyone's liking. Not that I live my life for others' approval.

The Jedi do have their code.

[Stated matter of factly, so it is hard to tell what exactly Padmé's thoughts on the matter were. Then again, there wasn't anyone in her family that had become a Jedi. Ani was the first one she had known quite intimately, and even he wasn't what was considered the norm.]

It rarely is, but everyone else isn't who you have to answer to. It is yourself that you have to live with. [Smiling.]

Oh, I have to live with Han and Luke too, to an extent. [Which is a nice feeling, in its own strange way.] But, that's a story for a different time.

No doubt you have many stories... [Her voice trailing in to softness. As many years as Padmé did, more or less, given the age of her daughter. Her own tale that made her who she was.] But there is nothing wrong with living with that as well.

Perhaps that's true, but you don't need to hear them all in one day. [She looks down at her cup, surprised to see that it's empty.]

Would you like another cup of tea?

I somehow doubt I could hear them all in one day.

[Even if she did want to. She glanced up though, looking to her daughter, as if trying to read something there. Yet a smile comes, and she nods.]

I would love one.

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