[What she can't shake is only the manifestation of a failed effort to suppress something that only continues to linger. The longer she looks at him, the more that the illogical tugs at her. The more definitive that flashes of her husband become. If it's difficult enough to maintain her bearings as it is, then the introduction is almost enough to obliterate them entirely.
Luke
There are pieces in place. An obvious acquaintance with someone named Han. The name she'd been told. Suggestions of a resemblance so uncanny that it passes simple coincidence.
Pieces, though, don't automatically lead to a conclusion. She'd be unwise to jump to one.
She inhales. Remembers her courtesies. Wills a smile to appear, just as it had before.]
[Her own efforts to steady herself hadn't precluded her from taking note of the expression that had gone along with his question. The sense that she'd been the cause of it. It's up to her now to assuage him.]
He's in no trouble. Not that I know of. [A beat.] I apologize if I may have worried you.
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Luke
There are pieces in place. An obvious acquaintance with someone named Han. The name she'd been told. Suggestions of a resemblance so uncanny that it passes simple coincidence.
Pieces, though, don't automatically lead to a conclusion. She'd be unwise to jump to one.
She inhales. Remembers her courtesies. Wills a smile to appear, just as it had before.]
I'm Padmé.
[Her own efforts to steady herself hadn't precluded her from taking note of the expression that had gone along with his question. The sense that she'd been the cause of it. It's up to her now to assuage him.]
He's in no trouble. Not that I know of. [A beat.] I apologize if I may have worried you.