Leia quirked an eyebrow at the reaction to her suggestion about the cards. There was definitely a story there, but now wasn't the time to get into it. She nodded, letting that bit drop for the time being.

"You can certainly do that too," she said. "That's why the saying 'hope for the best, plan for the worst' exists; fortune favors the prepared. But there are always going to be aspects of a situation that are simply out of your hands. It's impossible to plan for everything, and trying will only make you an anxious wreck."

"And sometimes, hard as it is to accept, there will simply be nothing that you can do to help a situation. That's true no matter where you are, no matter how powerful, clever, or skilled you are. Not every situation has the possibility of a good outcome. Sometimes... it's just a choice of what option is the least terrible."