To his credit, Kanan managed to only loose a small 'hnnf' as the life was half squashed out of him.

"Guess I did," he agreed, because there wasn't any denying that, either. He paused a moment, and then added, "Would've been a lot worse if I didn't."

Children. There had been children. Hollowed out and turned into--

His jaw tensed a little.

He exhaled.

Yet peace...

"There are going to be things I do that you're not going to like," he added. "The best I can offer is that they won't come from the same place the drinking did. They won't be because I've stopped caring."

Would be, in fact, because he'd come back around.

Had started caring maybe a little too much.