[ if anyone understands what it's like to watch someone die right in front of you, it's leia organa. maybe she didn't actually see anyone, but she watched alderaan explode under the force of the death star's destructive ray. saw the fragments of her obliterated world scatter across an empty pocket of space where a planet had once been. felt the deep ripple that she knew to be the force reacting to billions of people crying out one second, only to be silenced the next.
she shifts her shoes to her other hand so she can reach out to take his. ] I'm sorry. [ and she is. genuinely, and without pity. ] That's a difficult thing to deal with.
[ especially when you can't go home to deal with it properly. she knows what that's like, too. leia can get back to her galaxy, maybe, but she can never, ever go home. ]