Ren knew it.
He knew it because he was exactly the same way in those situations, and because he had spent enough time around Luna to recognize the pattern in someone else, even when recognizing it didn't stop him from feeling guilty about it.
Selphira looked at him with the deep attention she had when she wanted what she was about to say to land with all the clarity she intended to give it.
"The only reason you're the one going," she said, "and the one giving orders out there, is because you're the only one who can do something about the crystallization when you find what they're looking for." She paused. "But you're carrying nine lives that matter a great deal. Don't focus only on Sirius's."
The silence that followed had the weight of things that were said once.
