Caedus relented, a slight smile, a nod. "My mistake. You told me as much at our first meeting. A slip of the tongue. I'll try to avoid it in the future."
The smile faded the moment she said that it didn't seem right. "The truth rarely does feel right. Besides, why would I bother to lie about something you could easily confirm? Or better yet, something they sugar-coated and turned into a lie about me? 'Your father used you as a shield to get us to stop shooting him down'. That sounds like the version of the truth that Tenel Ka or Luke would feed you."
His fingers began to drum against the table. "Think about it, Amelia. You're trying your hardest to find me in the Force, and you can't even get the impression that I'm alive, let alone how strong I am. We were in a stealth fighter that not even a crystal grav trap could locate. Yet they still went for the kill. Using you as the homing beacon. No, not something to make Jedi like Luke proud, using a little girl and trying to kill me by killing the both of us at the same time. Why would he tell you something like that when it would be the thing most likely to drive you away from the Jedi?"