She looks back at him after a moment, hands still twisted together in her lap.

"A lot of children don't. And a lot of people don't really know what to do with children, or how to teach them while letting them be children. The Jedi tried. I can't say they were wrong. But it seems . . . hard, not to have anyone or anything that's yours. And -- they did have families, the Jedi. They had each other. From the outside it doesn't . . . exactly sound different, at the core."