Tenderness is something worth exploring while there's no rage to burn down all of the subtler emotions and while he's not actively destroying everything in himself that he deems weak. Maybe something will be learned from all of this.

Maybe that something will be don't become emotionally involved with unstable weapons of the dark side, but maybe not.

Even though he doesn't return her smile, he isn't as irritated with blaster practice as he was before. "You'll need to show me how to hold it again."