✧ 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.

Comments

[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.]

[ignite_the_stars]

I don't know how you can be sure, that sounds like something you have to decide for yourself. I'm not lying.

[He's not sure what Leia wants him to do to prove it.]

[borntorebel]

[Leia's not sure what she wants him to do to prove it, but if he really is a Jedi, there has to be something. She scours her mind for the stories she's heard over the years, the whispers of servants and friends at school.]

Show me your lightsaber. If you're a Jedi, you must have one, right?

[ignite_the_stars]

[Well, if it's that easy...

Anakin holds up his lightsaber hilt.]

[borntorebel]

[Hahahahahahaaa! Nothing is ever that simple.]

All I see is a metal tube. Anyone could carry that around, sir.

[ignite_the_stars]

Then you do not know what a lightsaber is or what it looks like. [He fingered the button then, igniting the blue blade.]

[borntorebel]

[She stares, mesmerized by the blue light. It takes her a moment before she can pull her eyes away from the deadly weapon to look at the man holding it.]

That's the first time I've ever seen a lightsaber, Jedi Knight Skywalker. I've only heard about them in stories.

[ignite_the_stars]

[Anakin turns off the blade and clips the weapon back to his belt.]

Was that sufficient proof?

[borntorebel]

[His slightly surly attitude is more than welcome and she smiles at him widely.]

Yes, although.... I suppose it's too much to ask to see it in person, yes?

[ignite_the_stars]

You should stay with those who have taken on the role of you guardian in this place.

[Ya, Anakin's not going to touch that role.]

[borntorebel]

I have yet to find a place to stay and have no guardians here.

[Mainly because she's run from the only two people she's seen face-to-face so far.]

[ignite_the_stars]

You have both here.

[borntorebel]

Excuse me, but I don't see how I have both. This isn't Alderaan.

[That much has been made clear by now.]

[ignite_the_stars]

If you continue to flee from everyone trying to help you, I suppose I can agree you have neither.

[borntorebel]

[She stares at his face for a few long minutes, surprise over every young feature.]

How...how did you know about that?

[ignite_the_stars]

I know you have dedicated guardians here and a place to sleep. If you claim to have neither, I know it is not from a lack of their effort to help you.

[borntorebel]

[She shakes her head stubbornly, biting on her lip to keep her voice steady when she can finally speak.]

I don't know anyone here. I was at school and then suddenly I'm here. I don't know where this place is. I just...I want to go home. And I've seen two people that I've never met. One had a blaster and the other nearly hit me with this strange stick that he threw through the air.

You're the first person I've talked to besides them.

[ignite_the_stars]

What did the one with the blaster look like?

[borntorebel]

[She scrunches up her face as she tries to think of the words to describe the first man besides "creepy" and "scary".]

Tall. Old? Um, he had brown hair. He-he sounded like he knew me, if that helps?

[ignite_the_stars]

His name is Han. You can trust him. He's trying to help you.

[borntorebel]

[She's not so sure about that.]

Do you trust him?

[ignite_the_stars]

[The droid Anakin was fixing started beeping a warning just at that moment, giving Anakin a reason to look away and concentrate on something else for a moment. Which gave him time to think. He wasn't comfortable with lying, but he wouldn't be telling the truth if he said he trusted Han.

The droid bleeping stopped and he looked back at the journal. He felt fairly confident he had a way to answer Leia.]

He has never harmed me and he has the trust of the Jedi here. [This was not as straight forward as he would have liked to have been. But that way would pushing Leia further away from help.

Calling upon the collective identity he shared with Luke and Obi-Wan under the banner of 'Jedi' he felt that he could honestly say the group of Jedi, rather than the individual that was him, trusted Han. And Luke was undeniably close to Han.]

He's helped the Jedi numerous times.

[borntorebel]

[She might not be an adult yet, but she knows political talk when she hears it. It's part and parcel of being the Crown Princess and daughter of the Queen and Senator of the planet.

She tries to read between the lines, but there's a lot that she's missing. Instead, she just frowns even more and nods. If he wants to go the diplomatic route, she can't really pry, can she?]

So, he's safe to talk to. Okay.

[ignite_the_stars]

[This time Anakin didn't need a moment to think about what to say. And his answer was completely honest.]

Yes, he is safe to talk to.

[borntorebel]

[Well, that answer is pretty quick. And gives her more to work with. This Han person isn't particularly liked by Jedi Knight Skywalker, but he's safe to talk to and helps out the Jedi.

Which still doesn't change her opinion of the other man yet. Not until she's had a chance to observe him on her own terms.]

Thank you. I'll keep that in mind.