[ leia doesn't mind questions. she does, however, mind being pitied. the victim was not a part she was willing to play. she was a survivor, a fighter -- not a helpless flower wilting under the weight of her crown. ]
Oh, it was. [ she says ruefully. ] There was one day, before you got here, where we were all transported to some sort of horror hotel. [ that'd be a haunted house, but the concept goes over her head. ] Doctor Reid and I were waiting things out in a room full of broken repulsor furniture. I thought I could repair one of them. [ she holds her hand up, palm open towards elena. ] I was wrong.