✧ Fifth Rebellion ✧ Shift-ing Perceptions [Action/Video]

[borntorebel]

Action - Midmorning

[This new Luceti is, honestly, a much nicer cage than the one she remembers from before the time traveling experience, but it is still a cage. Growing up as the Crown Princess of Alderaan, Leia has known gilded cages a time or two.

And hated them.

Now that she is nearing twenty-five, her opinion has changed very little. Cages equate to a form of slavery in her mind. True, now that she's older, she's learned that one's role in life might not always be stuffy or confining. One's thought process going into the who thing does determine how it works out, after all.

But as she walks through the streets of this cage, it makes her thoughts turn back to other times. Times where she and Winter would run around the Royal Palace of Alderaan as little girls, visiting Neena, sneaking out of the palace complex to play with people her aunts would never have approved of. (Proof positive that she's always gone out of her way to associate with people of all kinds, no matter what.)

Her mind wanders a little, but her eyes still watch for any danger as she enters the forests of the enclosure. She is not, however, expecting to be caught up in one of the Natural Shifts that still take place. Instead of the woman many of the village will be used to seeing, there is a girl of ten, all long, brown hair, brown eyes and the largest scowl on her pretty face as she swims in the white dress and coat she'd been wearing before. The blaster she's had with her until now lies at her feet, ignored in the face of other issues.]

This isn't the school.

[Her voice is strong and severe, despite the high pitch and youth in it.]

I don't remember there being forests like this nearby. Hello? Is someone there? HELLO?


Video - Much Later

[Hello, Luceti, this is your tiny space princess and she is pissed.]

To those who've removed me from my school and home, know that your efforts are useless. My family will never give in to your demands and you will only be calling down the wrath of one of the Ancient Houses of Alderaan. We might be a planet of pacifists, but we will not cave to barbarism or petty kidnappers.

My suggestion is that you return me at once.

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[ignite_the_stars]

[It's something that a fluke that he had his journal open so that he catches this.]

--Leia?

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[borntorebel]

[Her face is into a very flat frown as she replies. Sorry, no recognition means you're probably one of her captors.]

I am Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan, yes. You are?

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[ignite_the_stars]

[Right, of course. Back to the future didn't mean all strangeness was gone.]

Uh- No one has kidnapped you. [He figures an explanation of her circumstances was the best place to start.] Something about this planet has pulled you here.

I am... [Well, he couldn't tell her he's her father because he knows she would think that is wrong. So, official title it is.] Jedi Knight Skywalker.

[borntorebel]

[She stares at the datapad and shakes it for a moment in frustration. He must be some kind of liar. For one, planets don't kidnap anyone and there are no more Jedi Knights. Her father told her so. But....that's not something that anyone would just spout off like that either. Even flippantly.]

You're a Jedi? How can I be sure?

[She's young and many people have tried to lie to her because they equate her youth with stupidity.]

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[averybadfeeling]

[... Well. It seemed even without the Malnosso and the Third Party, there were still to be perpetual thorns in the sides of Luceti's inhabitants.

And this one apparently wasn't going anywhere.

This... could become complicated.]

"Leia? I would ask that you remain calm. You don't know me, but my name is Obi-Wan Kenobi. And you're in no danger."

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[borntorebel]

[Leia looks closely at the screen, her face scrunched up in thought. She's heard the name before, but where...

And then it hits her and she smiles widely.]

Obi-Wan Kenobi? As in General Kenobi of the Clone Wars? You're here too?

[averybadfeeling]

[He gives a slight chuckle at that.]

"That would be the one."

[The flash of a grin returns to his typical composure, and he continues,]

"You have not been kidnapped. Not deliberately. You were brought here by, as best we can tell, natural causes. You are, however, quite safe, as I said."

[borntorebel]

[General Kenobi. He's a man that her father speaks so highly of and respects a great deal. She can trust him as well. If he's here, she's safe, as he's said.]

I am still very far from home. Is there no way to get back? My family will be worried. [As well as her teachers and that fussy Madam Vestra.]

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[notsosolo]

[Han was heading to the next site, trying to figure out what it was he was working on in that other timeline when he hears a vaguely familiar voice. Not quite what he knows, but enough to get his attention.]

Jai--

[He doesn't really want her here, but then he actually comes in sight of the source of the voice. And while she does look remarkably like his daughter, not quite. The oversized clothes. The familiar blaster.

Of course she looks remarkably like Jaina.]

Well this is...

[Giving new meaning to the word awkward]

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[borntorebel]

[She hadn't really known if anyone was close by, but the sound of a strange man's voice has her pulling the huge jacket she's wearing tighter around her to cover up her delicate frame as she stands as tall as she possibly can. Deportment classes sucked, but they were useful, she guesses. Besides, it's cold out here and the coat is very warm.

She doesn't recognize the newcomer, but he seems to know her somehow.]

I seem to be lost. Can you help me please?

[Politeness goes farther than attitude. It's something she's been trying lately, after all the years of her aunts, Sabé and mother telling her that repeatedly.]

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[notsosolo]

[Well, he can hardly leave a kid her age on her own, no matter who she is]

Everyone feels a bit lost when they get here.

[Or... get suddenly de-aged. He feels a bit lost himself right now.]

What do you need help with?

[One thing is obvious]

We can find you some clothes that actually fit.

[No way being in a grown woman's clothes can be comfortable]

[borntorebel]

[Come off it, Han. You'd never leave Leia to fend for herself and you know it. She's not sure if she can trust you, either. Or anything here.]

I don't have any credits to pay you with, sir.

[She's aware that she could bebfacing one of her kidnappers-for what else could explain what's going on-but she needs more information before throwing around accusations. (Thank you, Sabé, for the diplomacy training.)]

I don't know where we are or how I got here.

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[explaining]

Hi there. Not sure if you've gotten the breakdown yet, but just in case you didn't I can try and answer any questions you might have. I'm Guy.

For starters, I'm pretty sure we all ended up here by cosmic accident.

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[borntorebel]

[She narrows her eyes at the strange datapad where this "Guy's" image is coming from.]

You expect me to believe I've been kidnapped by accident? Sir, I'm ten, not stupid. You might as well blame the Force.

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[explaining]

It's hard to believe, I know, but it apparently really was an accident. And not so much a kidnapping as...as being picked up. Randomly. By a planet. [score that sounds ridiculous]

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[borntorebel]

By a planet?

[Looks of incredulousness still transcend age barriers, right? Because you can guess she doesn't believe you one bit.]

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[thefinaljedi]

[Oh kriffing hells, and here he thought it was all over and done with. But shifts are still a thing.]

Leia. I'd like you to remain calm and tell me were you are. I'll come find you and we can figure this all out.

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[borntorebel]

[She stands as tall and dignified as a ten year old little girl in clothes too big for her can. She won't show them fear. And she won't ask how he knows her name. It would be dumb if he was one of the kidnappers.]

I am calm, but I don't think it wise to tell you my current whereabouts.

[It's the library. You can see the bookshelves behind her.]

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[thefinaljedi]

[Luke's face breaks into a smile, because she's just so darn cute. It's not like he couldn't just track her in the Force, anyway, so may as well humor her and put her as much at ease as he can.]

And what if I told you I was a Jedi, and here to help keep you safe. Would that change your mind?

[Action - forest]

[theideaguy]

[Sokka is out and about in the woods. He's just made a brand new hunting knife, and of course he has to test it before actually "selling" it to someone else. In fact, he may just end up keeping it if it's better than his. But said hunting knife is not out; it's tucked away in his pack with ever other weapon of his except for Boomerang. Because of course Boomerang is the most important of all the weapons. It's also the one to be used first.

It's that moment when he finally sees a deer out in the forest; that would be a perfect test! He grins to himself and prepares to throw, but just as he lets go of the Boomerang, he hears rustling behind him through the grass. This not only flubs his throw, it also scares off the animal he was stalking.]

Ah man! Who could possibly be out this far in the woods?!

[Action - forest]

[borntorebel]

[Leia, sounding like a herd of wild eeyopies, crashes into the opening between the trees, stumbling over the too large boots and heavy, cumbersome skirt. She looks behind her, breathing heavily and eyes roaming crazily.

She startles at the new voice and looks at the stranger, trying not to panic again. The crazy, old, creepy guy hadn't followed her. She was safe, sort of, for now. But she had the issue of this other person.

Who had a large weapon returning at the back of his head.]

Look out, mister!

[theideaguy]

[Sokka's attention had been taken off of Boomerang, and given the bad throw, he had absolutely no mental idea of where it was or where it was going. Instead, all he could do is blink and stare at the little kid who was tromping through the forest. Sokka hasn't had the chance to interact with too many kids here (and even that with mixed success), but oddly there was something that he recognised about this one. And that's what makes him scrutinise her instead of trying to find the circling weapon coming back towards him.]

Wha— what!?

[Sokka turns just in time to see it coming, but he doesn't have quite enough time to completely get out of the way, and it ends up grazing the fringe of his warrior's wolf tail at the knot, causing a mess of now shortened hair to fall down around his face. The boomerang, meanwhile, arcs downward and skitters across the ground before coming to an unceremonious stop.]

Really!? [he says to no one in particular, though in truth he's talking more to Boomerang than anything else.] After all we've been through, you come back to chop off my hair! Ugh!

[For the moment, he's practically forgotten that itty bitty Leia is there.]

action - library

[diplomaticsolutions]

[There has been much to think about since Padmé had first arrived here, more since her talk with Anakin. There is a part of her that still believes that there is something missing. What he has said does not fit with what she knows. Her instincts have always taken her in the right direction, although sometimes she might end up in a sticky spot, but to start doubting herself now... No. She wouldn't.

It frustrates her more than anything, not knowing, and seeing what it did to Anakin. It isn't something one can look up to find an answer for. It is something that one must live and experience and know. Only then would she be able to understand more fully, to comprehend, but even Padmé knows that every story has different sides. And clearly there is something she is missing.

She found herself soon enough before her destination of the library, and pausing for a moment, she enters. It isn't too far, but far enough to stretch her legs and give her time to think. Her senator work had been denied her, but that is hardly surprising, given that the senate that she serves does not currently exist- or exist here.

While she cannot say she has anything particular in mind, she does move in to the building, looking at the stacks of books, and choosing an aisle, works her way down it. As much as she hates to waste time, time here doesn't hold quite the same meaning, and she can squander a few hours here, even if it does not produce anything worthwhile. Every little bit of information can help, even if it isn't until much later that its worth shines through.]

[borntorebel]

[After running from the forests, Leia decides that hiding in the library, antiquated though it is with its physical volumes, is a smart move. It's quiet. There's hardly anyone there, and she can hide in a corner so no one can find her until she decides what to do.

She's good at hiding. She and Winter have done it numerous times, spying on people in the palace and sneaking around to prank everyone. Or, just slipping away to visit Neena or her friends outside the palace grounds.

No, being quiet and sneaky is something Leia Organa is very good at, skills she's proud to have acquired over the years.

But, footsteps near by have her skittering behind a particularly high set of bookshelves. She uses the tomes as coverage to see who it is that's so close. And when she sees the lady's face, she seems oddly familiar. Sad, beautiful, lonely, and kind... For some reason, Leia knows this woman and she gasps as she takes a step back, knocking into the bookshelf behind her and causing many volumes to fall from higher shelves, some hitting her on the head in her shock.]

Ow.

[diplomaticsolutions]

[The gasp is heard, although Padmé has no reason to believe it is directed to her. She is in a library, and while one is supposed to be quiet, that doesn't mean that one is not allowed to make any noise. She would have thought it was simply someone finding something they were looking for.

Until the thumping of books says otherwise.

Shifting toward the noise, Padmé is met by a young girl, who, from the looks of it, has somehow managed to topple over several large tomes. Her eyes rise from the books to settle again on the child, pausing for a moment. There is a sense of deja-vu, although Padmé cannot explain why. It is likely just from her being on edge lately.

Leaning forward slightly, she asks.] You're not hurt, are you?