I think, uh, I think they expected it to be easy? Like, sure, Taako's got his memories back, it's all good now, we can move the fuck on.

[He's not sure who they is, really. Maybe just the IPRE.]

But it's different.

[Lup sees it, sometimes, in how he can't quite connect the way he used to. A decade and centuries of false memories that kept him closed off, how he pulls away even from her.]