5 year old Leia looked out her window to what was the most beautiful sight ever to her. Her home planet of Alderaan was covered in a thick blanket of snow, giving everything the look of magic. Leia ran down the stair to where her father and mother, the King and Queen of Alderaan, were having breakfast. She quickly ate her breakfast and ran outside to play in the freshly fallen snow.
Leia loved her planet, and everything on it. She loved how kind and caring the inhabitants were, she loved how serene and peaceful the landscape looked, she just loved everything about Alderaan. She was excited for when she would someday come to rule. She wanted to be the perfect leader just like her father. She wanted her rule of Alderaan to be peaceful and golden like in the stories her father told her. She wanted her rule to be as golden as the time of the Old Republic.
Leia's father told her many stories of the Old Republic. He used to be a senator in the senate, and wished that it was still that way. Leia wished that she could imagine it, but all she could remember was of the Emperor's rule. Although Leia had never met the Emperor, she had met his second in command, Lord Vader, and he didn't seem very nice.
Leia dreamed that she could work towards freedom from the Emperor just like her parents, but she was too young to venture out of town, much less try to rebel against the Empire. But still, she could feel that the galaxy wasn't supposed to be this way, it was supposed to be much more peaceful.
