[ grief calls to grief and Leia organa knows grief better than most. Deep in her core there was a black ball of grief, one that had begun when she was young and could remember the sadness of her mother and then again when she had seen things on planets that they were trying to save from the empire
But the biggest ball of grief was called family and it contained all of Alderaan within it. She'd lost her entire world to the empire and Vader there. When things had happened with Ben (though the memory of what it was that he had don was still hidden away in the back of her mind) had been added there as well even without her knowing. Leia lost the people she cared about and she knew it. Maybe that was the true Skywalker curse: in the end you were always alone.
Being always alone had taught Leia that maybe Saw had been right about some things even though her father might not have agreed. Oh, she wasn't quite there at the ends justifying the means but she was more so than she had been prior. The first order had seen to that.
She also understood doing everything for family, even if your family was that blank space in your chest. Without even thinking about it, Leia raised her glass.]/
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But the biggest ball of grief was called family and it contained all of Alderaan within it. She'd lost her entire world to the empire and Vader there. When things had happened with Ben (though the memory of what it was that he had don was still hidden away in the back of her mind) had been added there as well even without her knowing. Leia lost the people she cared about and she knew it. Maybe that was the true Skywalker curse: in the end you were always alone.
Being always alone had taught Leia that maybe Saw had been right about some things even though her father might not have agreed. Oh, she wasn't quite there at the ends justifying the means but she was more so than she had been prior. The first order had seen to that.
She also understood doing everything for family, even if your family was that blank space in your chest. Without even thinking about it, Leia raised her glass.]/
To the heroes we don't want but we do need.