"I have perspective now," he said. "You know, I saw that Jedi Knight again. She didn't even remember me. Why would she? What is one grieving boy in a galaxy full of them?"
"Everything," Gella found herself saying.
She felt it then, as he pulled his hand away from hers, the wound in his heart. That was the thing he was protecting.

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