Vader was quiet as she asked after her parents' fate. "There is a price to defying him. So it is likely he did." There is a weight to the first statement, something which heavily suggests never broaching the topic with Vader, just what that price is. But if one looks close enough at his body, there are fading scars, almost Lichtenberg figures. Because there are layers on layers, some decades old. But combat and other injuries have helped to disguise them.

"Is Leia like me?" He will kick his grandson if he tries to divert the topic. "Palpatine feels like a void in the Force, it's how he hid from the Jedi. He doesn't feel Dark, he is Darkness. I can feel you are related to him. But you aren't him. I doubt you could ever be. But that does make him a large threat to you."