Jack was looking at the lump on the sofa again. Wondering if there even was anything useful to say, Cade being Cade.

"My folks were like that," he said, after a short silence. "There weren't a lot of military families left on Alderaan when I was young, and there's even less now. Used to give me these lectures about how we were honourbound to step up, because the rest of our people had gotten fat and cowardly." He looked at his cup. "And you hear enough of that when you're young enough, running away to join the army at 16 starts making sense."