Yeah.

[ The finer details are part of what's not his to share. The basic stuff's enough to get his point across. ]

Rey and Leia were just... being Rey and Leia. [ Good. Kind when they have every reason not to be. Hopeful when no one else could find a thread to grab. He'd catch grenades for them without question. ] They thought if we've got him here away from the First Order, maybe they could... get him to turn. Switch sides. We didn't agree with that.

[ Put Rey up like collateral, he'd thought. Her and anyone connected to them. It didn't feel like a hope. It felt like someone's desperation. The logic on his end still isn't complicated to him. Bad idea. Bad person. He wishes he could legitimately understand it. ]

They backed down, but. [ He pulls a face. Shakes his head. ] Hard to hear that a maybe might be worth more than everything he's already done to you. Everything he's been part of. Even if they didn't go through with it. So we thought we should get some space.

[ Things still aren't close to the same. But that has a way of happening, he's realizing. ]