[Starkiller breathes through the vision as it passes, grateful for the anchoring contact. When he recovers, he returns the offered smile.]

It always is. I can't tell you how many times I could have cut and run, left my old life behind me, but...I had people counting on me. Things I had to do.

[He runs a hand over the Rebel Alliance patch sewn onto his clothes. Kota had given him this stuff, probably to remind him of what he'd created.]

I never asked to be a leader..or a symbol or anything, but here I am.