It was my mother. [ He says it almost as an afterthought. His mother was the one who had betrayed them, sold them out to the Empire, gotten his father killed. ] But I always knew she never loved me, so there was no trust lost between us. I don't know if that makes it better or worse, but that's the truth of it.

[ And yeah, all of what Clive said would definitely sound like something out of a fantasy to a kid from a sci-fi story. To Clive, it's just business as usual. ]

I'm afraid there's no advice I can offer you that would be helpful, my friend, but these things that happened to you, they were not your fault. You deserved to be cared for, to know you were loved. Every child does.