#starter call
“i’m fine, though. really.” he was lying, but there wasn’t any reason to tell her that as he flexed the fingers of his new hand. the sight of it moving was still somewhat disorienting, as if there was some part of him saying it was wrong even though it was hooked into his nerves (being able to feel things didn’t mean they felt right).
at some point during his stay on dagobah, he’d been told that mechanical limbs didn’t have the same connection to the force and part of luke wondered if that was the problem, but he wasn’t going to ask @healedforce about it - after all, luke had no guarantee the healer knew much if anything about the force. instead he offered her his best smile and thought of the promises he had to keep - to defeat vader, to return to master yoda, to save han. he didn’t have time to let anyone worry about him. “come on, you don’t expect me to break it that quickly, do you?”













