When the door opened, Leia felt her breath stall somewhere inside her chest, tight, pounding, as her eyes settled for the first time on her mother, her birth mother. She'd known ... Bail and Breha were her parents as surely as anyone else could have been, but she'd always felt slightly off. It wasn't until Luke that she understood more. And now here she was with this opportunity placed before her.
"Mother," Leia breathed out, stepping forward toward her with both hope and hesitance.