Luke shook his head. "You're not following," he says. "I've lost the battle already. I had to go to an abandoned island to manage it. Scuttled my ship. Cut myself ... cut myself off from the Force." From even the possibility of Leia finding him again. "I'm not saying I'm easy," he continues after a moment, eyes lowering almost modestly. "But I was once called an 'affable mynock' by someone who had reason to know how hard I was to get rid of."