I'm all right. [ a bald lie. only hours before he had answered the same fear. then, it had been true. then it had preceded the discovery of something monumental. something wonderful has happened, whispers padmé and his mind's loop of it makes it senseless.

there is no serenity to be found through their link or through the force. incandescent, he burns. but his smile for her is kind. ]

Ahsoka, you don't have anything to fear. You did what you had to with the few choices you had available. If what they say is true, where you were— It won't be attacked again.

[ stepping closer once more, the months fall away like a discarded robe. he settles into old trappings as if he had never stepped out of them. ]

That monster was something new. To all of us. You're not responsible for it.