action;
[ the foam to-go box is flimsy, and her fingers sink into the lid with relative ease, tension coiling up in the balls of her feet like a tightly wound spring. ]
I believe that you didn't, and I can forgive your ignorance, but [ her left joins the right, crushing the lid with a satisfying squeak and pop of contorting foam ] I doubt he did.
[ leia turns, walking far enough away to drop the meal she's no longer interested in eating in the trash and wipe her fingers on her skirt, but stops just short of the door. whirling around, she marches back up to the table, all hard lines and sharp angles, practically radiating with barely contained fury. (she's not mad at kitty, but she needs to make her understand why she's this upset.) ]
Jabba the Hutt was an overgrown slug. He was slimy, he had no sense of or care for boundaries, and he smelled like the putrid, rotting flesh of some over salted sea-dwelling creature. I was chained to him. Do you know what it's like to be practically naked in a room full of criminals who know nothing of consequences? Who don't care what happens to you as long as they get a good show? I do.
[ her voice gets quiet, and it's clear that she's holding back an uncharacteristic fit of tears. as strong and closed off as she is, this was a terrifying, traumatic experience for her. one that still haunts many of her dreams. she's beyond appalled that anyone would fetishize that outfit, that they would focus on what she was wearing instead of what she had to have been going through. ]
Believe me when I say I know how lucky I am. Jabba was more interested in showing me off, in making me watch as he put my people out to the slaughter — but after that? Do you know what happens to slave girls? Nobody cares what happens to slave girls. They're used until they're used up or fed to a rancor. He would've gotten bored eventually. And then I would have either been tasked with pleasing his vassals or handed over to the Empire that wanted me dead. Had I not strangled him to death with the chain that bound me to him, my life would have been over.