She'd known the woman would never go for it, but she'd asked, asked because it had been easy to ask. Alema who didn't hug, pulled Cathy into a final fierce embrace.
"Thank you, again. And keep an eye on Ben Skywalker would you, he's never going to be okay with Jacen and Tenel Ka, not entirely, so just...I owe his mother and cousin from long ago"
She pulled back, keeping her emotions in check, emotions lead to all sorts of unpleasent possibilities.
"Good, thank you....I..."
She wasn't going to say goodbye, she moved to the door eyes dark with a determination she knew was her, and so she clung to it.
"May the Force be with you" she settled for, and with a wave of her fingers shut the door behind her as she left the Welcome Center for the last time.