I know. [ and he doesn't sound like he needs convincing there. he does know that master tapal wanted him to live, to survive. ] I spent a long time thinking he was angry with me. That he was disappointed I never lived up to his last wish for me but... But I know now.

[ he looks up at jake, trying to smile but instead his lips just quiver before he looks back down, reaches out to run his hands over the scales beneath them.

he does know. he does. but maybe -- maybe it hasn't all sunk in yet. ] He told me he was proud. [ a pause, because the man was dead and he'd implied that. ] Through the Force.