[So it's answers after all. This one's an easy enough one to give, it's just history. Somehow he thinks it must feel more personal for Obi-Wan-- he'd fought in the Clone Wars, hadn't he?-- than it does to him. The last days of the Republic are barely a memory for Han. He knows enough about how things work to know the official story is about as trustworthy as any drunk's boast. Every government, big or little, runs its own propaganda. But of all the questions he could ask, it's an easy one.
Maybe Obi-Wan doesn't guess Han was there when he died. He sure as hell hopes not.]
About twenty years.
[He sips his drink, gaze fixed on the other man's. Though he's halfway tempted to ask Obi-Wan if he really wants to know about it, that itself seems like too clear an announcement that things went-- or rather, are about to go-- really damn badly.]
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Maybe Obi-Wan doesn't guess Han was there when he died. He sure as hell hopes not.]
About twenty years.
[He sips his drink, gaze fixed on the other man's. Though he's halfway tempted to ask Obi-Wan if he really wants to know about it, that itself seems like too clear an announcement that things went-- or rather, are about to go-- really damn badly.]
You could've asked Leia that.
[So why him instead?]