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This isn't necessarily a favorite moment, but it is a touching moment. Only now, though, because I'm reading it after the fact. *sniff*
"Oh, you'll beat this, " Leia said. "You will. And you'll have babies, and maybe soon after you, Jaina will have her own." She pushed Mara back to arm's length. "And won't that be fun?" she asked. "The three of us sitting around, trading stories, while Luke gets to babysit them all."
It was the perfect thing to say at that moment, and the edges of Mara's lips turned up, just a bit, into a smile, and a flash of hope crossed her vivid green eyes.
Leia knew, though, as she and Mara headed back to the bridge, that it might well be a fleeting hope, and an image of herself and Jaina sitting and talking to Jaina's babies about their brave, deceased great-aunt Mara nearly broke her down at that moment.
Nearly, but she held back the tears. She had to, they all had to, for Mara's sake.
Maybe Leia was able to hold back the tears, but I wasn't! *sobs*
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"It's not about the legacy you leave, it's about the life you live." ~Mara Jade Skywalker
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