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Leave a message. I will hear you.

[He laughs.]

Sort of, if it had rules, dice, and 2-8 players.

[Luke rolls his eyes.]

Well, that's what I meant. With actual friends.

[Oh. Well. That's both sad, and relatable.]

Aw, cheer up, Luke! I didn't find anyone who wanted to play it with me until I was in college!

You do realize that I'm not going to home home and play games, right? Or... go to college?

...well, then, what are you going to do when you go home?

[Luke sighs, leaning heavily against the wall he's next to.]

That's sort of what I'm here to figure out.

[Ah. Ford realizes he doesn't exactly know when on his timeline Luke is from. He sits there awkwardly for a moment.]

Really? I thought for sure you would know exactly where you were going.

[He raises an eyebrow.]

How to recreate an entire order of wizard warriors from scratch? I didn't know how to do it when I got here. Now that I know how it ends, I know even less.

....how does it end?

[Oh.]

You... weren't here, were you? When... when Kylo Ren was?

[Ford shakes his head.

(He was, but he wasn't paying attention to Kylo Ren and can't place the name.)]

Doesn't ring a bell.

[Luke sighs. It's still hard to talk about this. Partly to admit his failure, but it's not simply ego. It's the pain of revisiting the thing he knows he probably can't stop.]

He's my nephew. He was here, as an inmate. Because... [He swallows.] Because I failed him. Will fail him, in my future--I try to train him, and I fail him, and he turns to the dark side. This plan I have, this new world we're building... all we do is recreate the old one.

...that's terrible! But -- but what about all you did? There has to be a way to build a society after the Supreme Lord's death that doesn't just put the Empire back in control!

[This feels DEEPLY unfair, and he's distressed on Luke's behalf.]

Edited 2019-05-09 14:37 (UTC)

[Luke shakes his head.]

It's not about ... being rewarded for what I, what the Alliance, did. If we don't have something solid, something that works, to set up in its place, the vacuum left by the Empire will be filled. And now I know that I cause my nephew to turn, and that a group that feels disenfranchised by the fall of the Empire will rise to take power.

Oh my gosh.

I'm...so sorry.

...is there anything you can do to keep that from happening?

[Luke shrugs, smiling ruefully.]

I don't know. I don't know how time works, you know, once we... [He gestures.] Once we leave here.

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