It was nice, seeing Rey smile. Luke didn't think she'd found much cause to smile, in her young life. It made him wish he was the type of person who could make people smile. He thought, perhaps, that he used to be.

"Leia's very strong with the Force in her own right," he said. "Maybe she could see as much of herself in you as I do." To someone else, that might have seemed an odd thing to say, but for Luke it just was. His crush was brief enough and long enough ago that he didn't think about it anymore, but it still remained that Leia was the most formative female presence in his life. Anyone he responded to was going to have a lot in common with her. He looked down at Rey again. As he started to get more comfortable, the tension around his eyes was starting to ease. "And she knew I could never keep myself isolated, without effort."