A Nothing from which Luke and the others had saved him- put their own lives in great peril at his expense, for no other reason than that... he was their freind.
That realization made him feel indebted, a feeling he'd always abhorred; only now the debt was somehow a new kind of bond, a bond of brotherhood. It was even freeing in a strnge way.
He was no longer so alone.
No longer alone.
~From the Return on the Jedi novel
