"I decimated an entire generation of his pupils, I don't know that he had it in him to be proud of anything I did in the wake that," Ben admitted, his jaw twitching with tension as she mentioned Skywalker's failings.

"He tried very hard to keep us apart," he pointed out, one corner of his mouth twitching into a faint, humorless smile as he thought of that moment between them, their fingertips touching before she was ripped away.