That explains a lot, Ahsoka realizes with a little pang of heartache. It's why he had felt further from her than ever before, why there's this feeling about him that she had been attributing to the general bleakness of the contemporary galaxy.

"That couldn't have been easy," she says, but doesn't clarify if she's talking about Palpatine asking him or him walking away. "But I'm glad that you didn't, for what it's worth."