[ Her reply stuns him into silence for a moment, eyes widening a bit and his mouth forming an 'o' that might have almost been comical looking under different circumstances. He wonders if maybe he even misheard her. ]

They're truly dead? Both Vader and the evil old ghoul? How?

[ The news is almost too good to be true. Especially considering what he was doing mere moments before finding himself in this other world. ]

I tried but I couldn't. Not by myself at least, not against the both of them.