Ben could probably add quite a few items to that list that Hannah would never consider as foolish. Top of it might be this moment here, but then again he would hope that the woman would actually see this act for what it was.

The words hurt though. They're everything he wanted to hear, years ago, before he had committed to this. Leia told them, right, they knew what depths he would need to sink to?

"I follow an important path," he said evenly. There, no way that could be misinterpretated."