Han? [As Padmé doesn't seem to have any recollection of anyone by that name, but it can also be that he isn't even alive yet by her perspective. Step by step, those realities are settling in. The world has moved on, as she knows it does, but it isn't a few minutes, a week, or a year, but years. How much has changed and how much has stayed the same?

She doesn't doubt that it is dangerous work, but Padmé also doesn't doubt that they live in dangerous times. Not that she is saying that her time had been soft and gentle, but the Republic had stood as a beacon for centuries, and now an Empire...]

Fourteen... I was elected queen of Naboo at that age. [So young, Padmé thinks, but then again, look at herself.] But the Senate. What of it? I can't see Palpatine allowing it to have any true abilities. Were you part of this Rebel Alliance already at that time?