They rarely talk about Anakin. It does happen - sometimes old wounds just reopen, and sometimes they reopen them themselves because letting it fester feels worse - but it always leaves them both wrung-out and exhausted, always ending either holding each other tight or barely able to look at each other for days.

What helps is (they found all these holos hidden in my father's old Senate rooms Aunt Beru said that Shmi taught her this recipe look isn't this one of Padme's gowns?) looking for the other missing pieces, building something a little bigger and brighter out of their family history.