Leia Organa | OTA
Generally, going through the doors alone, wasn’t the best strategy - if only because most scavenger missions required steal, and to make sure whatever it was you were acquiring for the town needed generally needed more than one person - no one wanted to end up in the hands of the local authorities, with no way to get out of the mess. But, Leia wasn’t even certain she wanted to scavenge this time around. Maybe she was only just trying to get some time away from what felt like a very claustrophobic town at this point.
Whilst the Force heightened one’s senses in ways, and she was learning to push out, sense and feel - she didn’t think it was just that, that was telling her to turn around, the moment she stepped into the dark, forbidding scene before her - a dense forest that felt so many degrees colder than the climate she’d just left, it was dark too, barely lit by the moon, but offering just enough light she wasn’t completely in pitch black. And, almost the second she was thankful for that the clouds seemed to roll over. Perfect. This might’ve been a beautiful place to walk, had it not been so cold, and dark, and just ..unnerving. She didn’t feel alone, and not in a good way.
With every intent to turn around and leave, because every sense, Force or otherwise was telling her this place was not a good place to be - Leia couldn’t find her door back out, pacing back and forth, looking again and again. She’d once never lost the way back, in fact doors to return seemed - to always be right there, where you needed them, even if it didn’t seem exactly where you’d started out. It was weird. And this was even weirder. She cursed, and whilst she wasn’t about to panic, she decided instead, this ..must be one of those things, the doors had locked them in to Starklandia before, so this ..was probably just that? Maybe.
But how long would she be stuck here? Vegas had at least taught her something, she’d not left without her lightsaber at her hip - she contemplated lighting it, purely to help her see better ..but, bright glowing things also attracted a lot of attention and then, by the same token, pitch black made it all the easier for something to sneak up?