[It might be juvenile, but Anakin still makes a face in response. Perhaps it's because any time he does try to bring things up to the appropriate channels, it becomes all about the shame of feeling anything in the first place. The inability to let it go, like everything is a slight that doesn't matter.

He doesn't doubt she'll be better at it that the Order had. She's always been better at it. But it's something he thinks of as a point of intimacy, not...not something shared.]

You've governed an entire planet and they have you worrying about petty things like--if they're not even going to be shy about using us, they could at least pretend to know what they're doing.

[But he's not bitter, no. Not one bit.]