He was nineteen and brave with ignorance and adrenaline and grief. "I think by that point I'd stopped feeling anything much. After Beru and Owen and Ben and then Biggs, it was all just a sort of blur. I don't know how Leia was still functioning so well at that point."

He lost people. She lost everything. Maybe, it was just too great a loss for her to have really come to terms with at that point, still sort of abstract in its immensity. "Yavin's moon was the first time I saw real greenery. Trees and bushes and mud and rain. It rained when we got back, before we evacuated. It was amazing. Everyone thought I was just on a battle high until Han said I was from Tatooine."