[ Underneath this, underneath all of this, is what happened. Padme knows that, deep in her heart.
What happened to all of them. Leia. Luke. Kylo. What happened to them, and what they chose. She knows - has known for some time now - that she will not find any of it pleasant in the details. But she has also already known that long enough that she finds it does not hold as much fear as it once did. ]
There was Snoke, working on you. I know that. [ She meets his gaze squarely, earnestly. There's sadness there, the sadness Leia once spoke of when she remembered her mother's face. Padme cannot change what has happened in the future any more than she can change her death. ]
And I do not know, truly, about Luke or Leia, or you. It is hard, to come before so much of what has affected those you care about. And I think it is easily as difficult to come from later times. Both knowledge and the lack of it are equally difficult to move past.
Tell me about what they did to Ben, then.
[ A simple answer, in it's way, but it is an invitation. ]
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What happened to all of them. Leia. Luke. Kylo. What happened to them, and what they chose. She knows - has known for some time now - that she will not find any of it pleasant in the details. But she has also already known that long enough that she finds it does not hold as much fear as it once did. ]
There was Snoke, working on you. I know that. [ She meets his gaze squarely, earnestly. There's sadness there, the sadness Leia once spoke of when she remembered her mother's face. Padme cannot change what has happened in the future any more than she can change her death. ]
And I do not know, truly, about Luke or Leia, or you. It is hard, to come before so much of what has affected those you care about. And I think it is easily as difficult to come from later times. Both knowledge and the lack of it are equally difficult to move past.
Tell me about what they did to Ben, then.
[ A simple answer, in it's way, but it is an invitation. ]