Chapter 22: Princess Leia's wardrobe
"Perfectly well, though, very like yourself, he can't go 5 sentences without talking about you, and since he is planning the date, it is like one sentence AWAY from talking about you, and I have also sat through 79 Solo Poetry Attempts." Luke said.
"Oh, speaking of that, will you do me a BIG favor." Leia said.
"What." Luke asked.
"See, I want to knock, Solo's feet off, but just in case media people follow us, a Alderaanian trick, my aunt taught me is where a VERY flashy dress, preferably red or gold, and since I look positively AWFUL in gold, it will have to be red. I don't own anything in red, that will knock Han's feet off, and you are very good at telling what looks good on me, will you go shopping with me."
"You got your aunts to let you off."
"Well," Leia winced, " I will need to work that out, and I don't think its going to be to hard, you heard that they salvaged all the money, because supposedly all the banks had been storing the money on these shuttles, just in case the imperials wanted the money. Now, you are probably saying what has that got to do with anything, but, its just that…" "You are nervous about something, what." Luke said.
"Aunt Rogue is inspecting my wardrobe, I don't have enough 'princess like' outfits, a few, but most of mine where on Hoth, but we had to flee so hurriedly, worst of all, its Aunt Rogue, not Aunt Rainier, Aunt Rogue can't stand a princess without fashion sense." Sure enough, Rogue came out steaming. "WHERE IS YOUR PRIDE." She asked.
"Aunt Rogue, please, most of my princess like outfits where on Hoth, we had to flee Hoth to hurriedly for me to retrieve them, then the Empire burned the base to the ground, so they were also burnt to a crisp."
"And you did not think of buying more." Rogue asked, her voice dangerous.
Leia knew the truth would just get her into more trouble, she had not thought of that, so she simply inclined her head. "Well, may I go shopping to get them, now."
"Child, I wasn't born yesterday," Rogue said, giving Leia an appraising look, "I will let you go shopping to get a dress to knock Han Solo's shoes off, if you get a decent, or more then decent number of princess-like dresses."
Leia let her mouth drop open. "How did you know."
Tia burst into laughter, "well, as Rogue said, we weren't born yesterday, we also went on first dates, and you wouldn't have been a princess, or woman, if you didn't want to knock his shoes off. We were actually getting worried, thinking maybe battle squashed a lot of your feminine instinct. Haven't u heard the Alderaanian saying- Jab ek aurat sundar lagti hain, tab usse Ayse lagta hain ki vo har nahi sakti- when a Woman looks Gorgeous, she feels as though she can not loose."
"It's true." Rainier added, "Why I have seen cultures in which women fight, only after making themselves look STUNNING. Men, no offense meant Jedi Skywalker, have a tendency to think when a woman looks beautiful and/or acts daintily she is theirs to command."
"Is it true, Luke." Leia demanded.
Luke shrugged, and for once, he was GLAD he was brought up on Tatooine, "I wouldn't know," then, when Rainier, Rogue, Tia, and Leia's cousin sister Stephiane, looked skeptical he added, "and Leia would be able to tell if I was lying."
Leia reached out with the force, "he isn't."