"She was the leader Mandalore needed," Obi-Wan answers, even though he knows that isn't what Padmé means and he pauses, reminding himself what he's been trying to do since Anakin and Padmé have arrived here, too. To make things right, he himself must be more transparent.

"It's why I could never have asked her to leave with me," he says. "Though to this day I wish I had."