[Her voice, thanks to the wonders of telepathy, comes through calm, albeit stilted, but there's no mistaking the emotions that come through with her words. She can't mask it, as much as she wants to, because everything about Darth Vader is still and she thinks always will be like an open wound. It was bad enough when he was just a looming, menacing symbol of the Empire, but learning his relation to her made everything infinitely worse.]

Before she left, Padme and I had a... discussion. [it was an argument really, and it was easy enough to figure out the alternative meaning of "discussion" based on the strong feeling of guilt and sadness accompanying it. But those feelings fizzle out, toward the usual anger and hatred reserved mostly for Vader and the Empire.]

I would like to know how someone she believes is kind and caring can turn into something capable of watching unflinchingly as a planet home to billions of beings, including people he once knew, is destroyed in front of his eyes.

[among, you know, everything else she'd suffered at the hand of Darth Vader.]