[In this moment, he'd have preferred the yelling. Whatever abuse she might have hurled at him, it would have hurt less than hearing that note of pleading in her voice and seeing the pain written on the face of an old friend.
[He felt it, too. That little sliver of cold, emptiness, and despair working its way into her heart. It scared him. Dragged up unbidden memories of the past and set a little shiver of fear running through him. It nearly froze him for a moment, but he quickly pushed them aside.
[Right now, she needed him. She needed the help he hadn't been able to give her the first time around and fear had kept him from doing that for long enough already.
[He shook his head.]
No. Seeing you on Dantooine was the first time I had any idea what the council had done.
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[He felt it, too. That little sliver of cold, emptiness, and despair working its way into her heart. It scared him. Dragged up unbidden memories of the past and set a little shiver of fear running through him. It nearly froze him for a moment, but he quickly pushed them aside.
[Right now, she needed him. She needed the help he hadn't been able to give her the first time around and fear had kept him from doing that for long enough already.
[He shook his head.]
No. Seeing you on Dantooine was the first time I had any idea what the council had done.