Old Feelings Die Hard.

(Twenty minutes earlier)

Leia slowly walks into the house, her eyes searching for the masters of the house.

Her lips twist when she doesn't catch sight of them. Even the servants are missing.

"Hello?." She calls into the seemingly empty house, disconcerted when nobody replies. Her voice seems to echo in the silence and the eerie quality of it sends a shiver down her spine.

The clacking of heels breaks the quiet.

Leia looks up at the lounge balcony and catches sight of the matriarch of the sky family leaning against the railing.

The frosty woman glowers down at Leia, not unlike the way a person would stare at a particularly irritating bug before squashing it under their boot.

Leia gulps in trepidation. Claire looks very angry. Leia doesn't think she's seen her this mad.

Lifting a trembling hand, Leia gives the older woman a shaky wave.

"Hello, Claire."

"What are you doing here?" The woman sharply says. The tension in the air could be cut with a knife.

She angrily gestures a hand to t