Let it never be said that Leia didn’t know how to roll with the punches. She was clever and quick and she could charm the pants off of anyone. She frequently employed that last skill. But she was no stranger to weird circumstances and continuing on with her life. Like when she was 14 and got her period and her powers in one day. Finding out you’re a witch and that your whole family has magical powers really makes puberty look inconsequential. So she was a witch and her mother was a witch and her bubbe was a witch and this went back years. No big deal, she would give Harry Potter a run for his money.
For a while, things were fine, great even. She had good friends, fun relationships, a steady job. Her powers were strong and easy to use and no one suspected anything out of the ordinary. But then one night Leia woke out of a dreamless sleep to a terrible sound. A sound like the earth was being ripped open from the inside and everyone was screaming in pain and fear and as quickly as she heard it, it disappeared. It had shaken her, especially since no one else had heard it, but she put it out of her mind. Until a little scaly demon appeared in her apartment with a contract and a crown.
In all honesty, Leia was sure this was an elaborate joke. She couldn’t imagine a place like Hell being more than a concept, much less a place run like a monarchy. Although one could argue that the Devil or Satan was the King of Hell. Regardless, they were gone now and the bad place needed new leadership. And since Leia’s powers were ancestral and genetic and not demon gifted, that meant her. All in all, there were weirder things that could have happened.
Being in a banquet hall Aboveground and meeting her “court”, while wearing a crown of blue flames and a dress covered with blood diamonds and partially made of human skin, was probably a weirder thing. Still Leia was willing to see this through and be a good Queen. Who knows, maybe she could get a podcast out of this.
