December 1, Year 7
Outside Horizon
Open tag!
She didn't remember falling asleep. The night had been a long one, filled with raucous celebration, and clearly at
some point she'd come crashing down off the high of defeating the Empire and allowed exhaustion to drag her down into slumber because right now the sun was beating against her closed eyelids and demanding she open them. Delaying the inevitable Leia threw an arm over her face to block the light, her mind already racing ahead to remind her of all the things she had yet to do, all the work that lay in front of them now that they'd accomplished their goal. It hardly seemed fair, but they couldn't expect every last Imperial to surrender just because their leader was dead - if anything it was liable to make a portion of them lash out all the harder.
She rolled onto her back, realizing as she did that the surface below her wasn't familiar, shifting strangely underneath her. Patting the ground beneath her and finding
sand sliding through her fingers at least had the benefit of jolting her awake, the sun's gentle wake-up taking on a harsher tone as she sat up, forced to squint as she scanned her surroundings with a mounting sense of terror clawing its way up her throat. Sand. Sand
everywhere, replacing the forest of Endor's moon as if it had never been.
Adrenaline propelled her to her feet before she'd even taken it all in, not that it mattered once she had - it took every ounce of her self control and several minutes of forcing herself to take deep breaths to fight down the panic that was threatening to consume her. Whatever this was she could figure it out, she just needed to think rationally. ...Except that there was nothing
rational about moving from a forest to desert while one was sleeping. She'd been surrounded by an entire tribe of Ewoks, not to mention members of the Rebellion - it wasn't like she could have been carried off without
someone noticing.
And yet…
Logic had no explanation for this, and the longer she stood there the more she realized just how
hot it was. Standing around waiting to die of thirst wasn't going to do her any good and after another scan of the horizon Leia picked a direction - one that had the suggestion of a rise in elevation, she thought - and started walking. Finding water should be her priority, after that she could worry about finding someone to demand answers from.