[It's so obvious a lie as to not need counteracting, but that's all the more reason to do so. You matter, this matters, for he will grow up in a world that tells him so often that his feelings don't. Soon, he'll have to learn how to hide  everything, rage and grief and joy and delight. He'll have to learn how to put on a mask and keep it on almost always, and that's fine. That's the bargain. That's what it means to become the Sparkling Diamond, but—
Not yet. Not here in this room, when he's still a child nursing a broken heart.]
Come here. Come here, now—
[It's an awkward angle and it doesn't matter, not when it's his son— one way or another Kanan gathers him up, wrapping his arms around him and pulling him towards his lap. Clawed fingers work through silken curls as he makes wordless noises of comfort, just as he always did for every scraped knee and broken toy.
And when the worst of the grief seems to have subsided— when the tears abate, or the anger cools— Kanan murmurs:]
no subject
[It's so obvious a lie as to not need counteracting, but that's all the more reason to do so. You matter, this matters, for he will grow up in a world that tells him so often that his feelings don't. Soon, he'll have to learn how to hide  everything, rage and grief and joy and delight. He'll have to learn how to put on a mask and keep it on almost always, and that's fine. That's the bargain. That's what it means to become the Sparkling Diamond, but—
Not yet. Not here in this room, when he's still a child nursing a broken heart.]
Come here. Come here, now—
[It's an awkward angle and it doesn't matter, not when it's his son— one way or another Kanan gathers him up, wrapping his arms around him and pulling him towards his lap. Clawed fingers work through silken curls as he makes wordless noises of comfort, just as he always did for every scraped knee and broken toy.
And when the worst of the grief seems to have subsided— when the tears abate, or the anger cools— Kanan murmurs:]
It isn't as unfixable as it appears, Viniquessë.