#dark empire was such a ridiculous comic and i can't believe they didn't bring it back into print before tros came out what dummies

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[empiresbane]

Auntie’s Here

@brokenstarsandthedyad​ | liked this for an AU starter.

Leia Skywalker resisted the urge to check her lightsaber; she knew it was hanging at her side right where it belonged. It was still hard not to reach for it needlessly; the fidget would have given her something to focus on. She could have sunken into the Force, of course, could have reached-out and touched the galaxy around her; a Jedi was never alone, never bored. But Leia could afford no distractions right now; she had to focus.

If she was going to kill her only nephew, the least she could do was pay attention.

Leia took another slow, calm breath; aside from the roiling discomfort that fluttered in her guts like a dozen anxious ugnaughts, she was relaxed. It did no good to walk into a fight tense -- and Leia was sure that a fight was what was waiting for her. Kylo Ren would never surrender and she could not allow him to threaten the galaxy unchecked just because she was fond of him. She had to end this.

And the time for that, Leia felt, was now. No more waiting while her nephew gathered his nerve or plotted some treachery to avoid dealing with her himself: it was time to face one another...again. “Kylo!” Leia called, using the Force to pitch her voice so that it would carry across the field and across the half-built First Order base at whose walls she stood staring. “Come out. Auntie Leia wants a word!”