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

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[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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[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?!

[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!

[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.]

[Still skittish from her encounter with Han, Leia backs away from Sokka, pulling her too-big coat tight around her against the cold.]

Forgive me. I didn't mean to mess up what it is that you were doing, sir.

Oh, it's alright. Just interrupt me when—

[Sokka grabs Boomerang at gives it a stern look, but it's Leia's voice that calls him back from his angry little tirade. The stern look is directed mistakenly at her for a moment, but it eventually fades into surprise when, upon a second glance, he realises that the face of the girl is much more familiar.]

Do... I... know— Leia??

[She hides more in her coat as he says her name, wondering if she can just disappear from the stranger and if it would be safer to run.]

Yes. Do I know you?

[The answer is no in her mind, but... Luceti...]

[Sokka just blinks a few moments before deciding that he is entirely nonplussed by the situation. He groans a little bit before just pressing against his forehead as if there's a headache due in any moment now. First there was girl Zuko; now it's child Leia. At least the former was decidedly worse, even with his wolf's tail chopped off.]

Well it'd be kind of awkward if I knew you and you didn't know me. Not to mention a bit... creepy.

[He says this with a little more annoyance at first, even if he is being mostly serious at the same time.]

But, well, let's just say I know you from when you were about, oh, 15... 20 years older?

[She continues to watch him, her eyes wider than she will allow anyone to admit. Leia is scared, yes, but she won't let anyone intimidate her. She's Breha Organa's daughter after all.]

I don't think it would be creepy. It would be impossible. As is knowing me when I'm older, since I am most decidedly not thirty years old.

[Really? Does Luceti still have to be throwing him this sort of stuff? Now that everything's been worked out? Can't they just go back to happy happy fun land now?]

Okay, look, I know all about you, okay? You told me yourself. You're some high and mighty princess, you've got this other brother, and you get married to Han when you're older after he kidnaps you or something. Though... I guess you don't find out about that last bit for quite a few years down the road.

[Sokka, this is Luceti. Nothing is as great as you think it should be.

But, as he talks, her face shuts down. He's insane. First a creepy kidnapper and now some lunatic. She's so over all of this. Instead of replying to him, she gathers her courage and starts running once again, this time where she thinks there might be buildings and people. Maybe she can lose all the weirdos if she's around others. But she's not laying bets on it.]

[Well, that could have gone better. Ah everything has completely reset back to the beginning. Ah Luceti, don't ever change.]

Nice meeting you too! Again, [Sokka sarcastically calls after her before he's alone in the distance mourning over his now shorter hair.]

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I think Sokka should know all this? Let me know if not.

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