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[jedied]

Are you busy?

[dyaddyissues]

For you? Never.

[jedied]

It's a slow night at work. I've just been out of sorts since all the weird stuff. I spent a few days haunting a house.

This is going to sound awful to you, but... I kind of miss Tarkin.

[dyaddyissues]

I killed a bunch of zombies. With a bat.

I'm not gonna say it makes any sense to me, but I know from experience that people can change. He was kind of your... uncle, right?

[jedied]

Yeah. Do you remember when we were in that alternate Ryslig?

Javert was my dad, and -- Tarkin was Uncle Wil. He was a good person. And then later, when we were kids -- I understand what happened to him. Why he turned into the man he did.

He was a better person here. And now he's -- dead, I suppose. Back home, certainly. Who knows, here.

[dyaddyissues]

I met him, when we were kids. Think he always felt kind of weird about me, and I can't say I felt too much different. Maybe there was some kind of regret over his involvement in the Death Star blowing up my mother's planet, I never bothered to ask.

Anyways, I'm sorry.

So in what ways did he change? I mean, why don't you tell me about him, what he was like as your uncle and beyond?

[ since he was obviously someone important to Rey, to Ben it was another reminder of the past - his mother, the legacy of their family... ]

[jedied]

I was sort of awful to him for a long time. Up until I met him as a child, really.

I couldn't deal with caring about him, or him about me. But when we forgot who we'd been -- he was kind, and vibrant, and a decent person. He bought me a fancy cake for my birthday, and got Javert to be less severe all the time. He tried, anyway.

He was a good father figure to Abigail even after we came back. I can't say for sure, but I think he regretted the things he'd done.

I don't understand how this place can make a person better, but if it can do that -- would it be so bad to stay here?