[ Even without having physically harmed Leia, to know that their father has threatened to... threatened to kill Bail who was, in every sense of the word, her father... it has Luke's heart drop for a moment and his gaze drifts away from Leia as those swirls of hot and cold are felt.
It's not that he doesn't believe her, he can feel the way the memories bring an emotional reaction around them. But he can't help but wonder... but question why their father holds such anger, such hatred inside him when neither of those were things that he felt when around him. For a moment, fleeting as it is, he almost has to wonder if it's all in his head with what he's felt when around his father, as if trying to convince himself that Anakin Skywalker and Vader are not one and the same. To be so desperate for his father in his life as Leia has had Bail... ]
Leia, I'm sorry.
[ Perhaps not said as an apology on behalf of Anakin but, for not being here to protect her from that moment. ]
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It's not that he doesn't believe her, he can feel the way the memories bring an emotional reaction around them. But he can't help but wonder... but question why their father holds such anger, such hatred inside him when neither of those were things that he felt when around him. For a moment, fleeting as it is, he almost has to wonder if it's all in his head with what he's felt when around his father, as if trying to convince himself that Anakin Skywalker and Vader are not one and the same. To be so desperate for his father in his life as Leia has had Bail... ]
Leia, I'm sorry.
[ Perhaps not said as an apology on behalf of Anakin but, for not being here to protect her from that moment. ]
I won't let that happen. No matter what.