"You could always prepare the ingredients there and then bring them here, if you're concerned about not being able to spend time with them," Leia said. "Or find other activities you could do together."

Ah, that was it. She walked over and carefully sat down next to Naja on the floor, so as not to be looming over her. "The unfortunate truth is that most of the time? You can't. Occasionally everything will align perfectly and let you protect everyone equally, but in a typical mission situation? You're going to have to make choices. And not all of them will be easy ones."