(open option) no one can ever escape all of your ghosts

[functusofficio]

WHO: Padme Amidala & potentially you (also Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, Count Dooku)
WHERE: Maurtia Falls, De Chima, Nonah
WHEN: Over the past few days.
WHAT: Transitioning some threads into game canon and an open option.
WARNINGS: Tragedy and body horror / injuries in the Star Wars threads.

1. OPEN. Maurtia Falls. #007 as a subset.

[ Padme explores her new home slowly, by degrees, after the first few ventures out and meeting her children. The park draws her attention first, the statues and inscriptions. It is very ostentatious, in its way, meant to draw attention, and if her expression turns frosty when she sees Count Dooku's name attached to one of the quotes, well.

It's nothing compared to what she looked like when she first saw him here.

The construction site of the library draws her attention as well, approval as she asks questions of the construction workers. She sounds in those moments almost like someone who's in charge, has real authority, even if all she is doing is asking questions and trying to learn more. The network can tell her only so much, but she has all the authority of a Senator used to being unquestioned to draw on. It works for her on some occasions, but not all.

She understands the times it doesn't.

The rest of the time she can be found in her new home, looking over the network mostly but also attempting to meet and talk to her sudden roommates, even if she's not the most present. If she is to live with them until she can find a new place, the least she can do is be polite and friendly. ]

2. LEIA.

Likely not. [ Still calm and quiet, concentrating on the effort she is making to fixing the damage. (Damage she and Anakin caused. Force help them all. Their child was meant to be a gift, a miracle.

She is. So strong, so vehement, so headstrong. So like her father. The shards are out as best as she can, and she covers Leia's hands with her own, looks up at her again finally.] I'm afraid you'll need a medical droid -- or. Whatever it is they use here, to fix this so that it doesn't scar.

[ For a long moment it's almost like she's ignoring that last sentence, but she can't be cowardly enough for that, refuses to be even if everything she's just learned has shattered so much of what she knows or wants to. Her face is open, uncertain but hopeful, joyful and hopeful simply from looking at her daughter's face. ]

I understand, given what you've told me, how that is upsetting to you. [ and then, very simply ] But if he is correct, and you are my daughter, there is nothing in my life I have wanted more than to meet you and your brother.

3. LUKE.

[ Her own smile is still tinged with sadness. ]

That would certainly be a gift.

[ But what he says last is what she cares about most, and she tightens her grip on his hands, nods gently. ]

As do I. So -- here, in this place, what do you do? Do you like it here?

4. COUNT DOOKU.

[ It's almost amusing to her, that feigned shock, but not enough to actually bring any thaw or even a hint of laughter. ]

Of course you have, Count. I would expect nothing less from you. What justice have you worked towards, here in this strange new place?

[ She knows he'll have an answer, knows he'll find a way to spin it -- it has always been his gift. But she still wants to hear the answer from him first. ]