"I understand," she said.

The Red Dragon once had another name too. One that very few people knew. Ariadne did, of course. Because Aunt Lysia did. But neither of them ever dared to utter it. Except in whispers by the fire, alone in the privacy of the room they shared. And then, only on the rare occasions when they could sit and talk together.

But wasn't used. But it's who he was. Beneath all of the awful things he'd done.

So let it be with Anakin too.