You'd grow to love droids if they taught you instead. [Anakin particularly, no doubt, if Luke's mechanical aptitude comes from him. The more Leia hears about the old order, the less she can believe in its success. What she and Luke create will be different, must be different.]

The senate was still nearby, I suppose. [Seeing the palace--the temple--before her has her reconsidering the entirety of Coruscant, trying to imagine the landmarks in her parents' time. Even in the course of her own lifetime, the smaller places on Coruscant have come and gone: restaurants, nightclubs, theaters, convenience stores. The largest landmarks remain, though, and Leia hopes they'll continue to do so, if in altered states.] I suppose there were plenty of opportunities to see my mother.

[Secret meetings with the danger of discovery always hanging overhead. It's a story Aunt Tia would have loved, she thinks.]