"The more I try to convince you, the less believable you will find it."

His color has deepened back to its normal hue.

"My loyalty to the Chiss was bred in my bones. I have no such ties in this part of the galaxy, and it is such loyalty and such connections that has defined first the Rebellion and then, most likely, your Resistance. I have only my skills and the strength of my word, the latter of which, I suspect, will only be believed once there is action behind it. And that . . . is where the problem lies."