Let's See What's In The Cards (Mmhm)

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The weather was still bitterly cold, and the snow was still thick on the ground, but it was finally possible to at least go outside by the front doors. The King and Queen have still forbidden anyone from staying overnight at the museum district in case it started snowing again. But the King could be seen outside trying to shovel snow enough to make a path to the castle at the least.

The snow was still too thick to get easily anywhere not shoveled, and the snow was so heavy that even beasted out, Ben needed to take constant breaks inside to sit down and dry off. This wasn't going to be a fast task.

It was only made harder when it started. For those who slept, it would start after they have fully awoken for the day. For those who don't sleep, they'd find that they had fallen into a pleasant daydream, even if it wasn't normal for them to do so. When they came out of it, that was when it would start for them.

But what is it, exactly?

Small snippets of memories, playing for anyone who was with the person remembering to see. But the thing was, these memories... were memories the person had not yet made. Memories of the future.

Not enough to give answers, probably not enough to give reassurances for much other than "oh hey, I do have a future after all," but generally pleasant, and short. Hey, it will give people a thing to talk about, at least. Especially since this will go on for the next two weeks or so.

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[ubuntu_programmer]

"Oh I'm not surprised you are. And I'm sorry, I'll try to focus on you on who you are now. But the other you is still in my head, and that means," they said, kneeling down, "that you can ask me for more than you could ask other adults, okay?"

[princess_weia]

"OK!", Leia said, offering her small hand to shake. Her parents or her tutors would have probably told her to curtsey, but they weren't here. "You obviously know who I am already, but what's your name?"

[ubuntu_programmer]

Ian shook hands when offered. "I'm Doctor Ian Wright. A pleasure to actually get to meet you when awake, princess."

[princess_weia]

"It's nice to meet you too," she said. "And you can just call me Leia. Do you want me to call you Dr. Wright, or is just Ian OK?"

[ubuntu_programmer]

"I would be beyond thrilled to just be called Ian by you, Leia." This was so surreal...

[princess_weia]

"OK then, Ian," she said. Then after a moment to consider what to do next, she continued, "Do you wanna see my room? It's a lot like most of the other girl's rooms here, but I tried to make it less pink at least. I don't know who designed it, but they must like pink a lot." And judging by her tone, Leia wasn't quite as fond of it.

[ubuntu_programmer]

"I have noticed the singlemindedness in colours here. But alright, perhaps I can help."

[princess_weia]

"That'd be great!", she said, heading for the girls' dorms and trusting that Ian would follow. "I put the prink pillows and things in the closet, but the curtains are way too high up for me to reach to take them down, even when I stand on a chair. But with the chair, you'd probably be tall enough." Or they could find an actual step ladder to avoid either of them potentially breaking their neck.

[ubuntu_programmer]

So no use of the Force yet then. Or was this how... hmmm...

"I am," Ian confirmed. "But maybe we can use a little trick to take them down more easily..."

[princess_weia]

"What kind of a trick?", Leia asked.

[ubuntu_programmer]

"You'll see. Well, if it works you will."

[princess_weia]

Leia gave them a look that said she thought they might be pulling her leg, particularly with that disclaimer, but nodded. "If you say so," she said. "But if it doesn't work, we'll just use the chair."

[ubuntu_programmer]

"Agreed. Well, perhaps not a chair, but ingenuity."

Doing a little time skip because walking isn't very exciting. X3

[princess_weia]

Luckily it didn't take them too long to reach Leia's room. As she'd said the pink pillows for both beds and even the pink lampshades had been removed. It was too cold still to dispense with the duvet covers, so instead, they had both been flipped over so that the white underside was visible instead of the pink. The bed that Leia had claimed was clearly marked by a furry, brown stuffed toy resting against the pillow.

Leia ran over and retrieved the toy, showing it to Ian. It looked vaguely like a teddy bear that one might find on Earth, but the proportions were slightly off. "This is Scruffy," she said. "He's a baby wookie. I was holding him when I was brought here so he came along with me. Nothing else that was in the speeder did though. It's too bad too, cause I bet you'd like Lola."

Re: Doing a little time skip because walking isn't very exciting. X3

[ubuntu_programmer]

"Lola?" Ian asked. They would have been more enamored with a plush baby wookie... before they had watched the holiday special.

But they were already getting ideas how to help with the room.

[princess_weia]

"Lola is a little toy droid I got for my last birthday," she said as she returned Scruffy to his place on the bed. "Her whole name is L0-LA59, but Lola sounds a lot better, and she likes it, so that's what I call her. She's smart and really fun, and she comes with me most of the time when I go play in the woods by the palace."

[ubuntu_programmer]

"I'm not familiar with LO droids," Ian admitted. "Can you tell me more about her?"

[princess_weia]

"Well she's disk-shaped and about this big around." Leia gestured to indicate something about six or seven inches in diameter. "She's mostly red and white, but had a black lens and a couple little blue lights. Most of the time she moves around by flying on a little repulsor, but when she lands someplace she's got two little legs that come down so she can stand on stuff. Oh, and when she's flying, she's got two little panels that flip up like the shells some kinds of flying beetles have; they help her steer and I think help with cooling too."

[ubuntu_programmer]

"She sounds adorable," Ian said with a warm smile.

[princess_weia]

"She is," Leia said. "And she's way more fun than TooVee, though TooVee's nice too. TooVee is my personal attendant droid; she's mostly blue and moves around on a roller ball. From the waist up she's mostly humanoid, though her head is shaped more like a Rodian's, just with no antennae."

"She really likes it when she gets to dress me up for fancy parties and things. I don't really like getting dressed up like that; some of the dresses are so frilly that they're hard to move in, and I think they make me look like a cupcake somebody dropped on the floor. But it makes her so happy that I can't really be mad."

"Anyway... what's the trick you said about for getting the curtains down?"

[ubuntu_programmer]

"An experiment, try it with me? Let's sit down. You take the bed, I'll sit on the floor. Then we're going to focus, alright?"

[princess_weia]

Leia seemed a bit dubious of this plan, but nodded, hopping up to sit on her bed. "What are we going to focus on?", she asked.

[ubuntu_programmer]

"Have you heard of the Force?"

[princess_weia]

"I think it's a power that the Jedi had," Leia said. "Something they could use to make things float." She'd heard a few other things about it too, but that was the most interesting part to her.

[ubuntu_programmer]

"It could do much more than that, but let's start with floating. After all, that would make this task much easier, wouldn't it?" They asked. "And be very helpful for getting things off of high places without having to climb on a chair. Or getting a soda from the fridge without getting up from your game."