"Well..." He is certainly not going to ask about Padme, not as an opening measure. How is your Mother could go so wrong, in so many ways, "...Knowing the future with any certainty is difficult, even for a Jedi-- I'm curious."

Do they win the clone wars? Does the Republic survive? Is Anakin well? If you are a Jedi, if the future is not ash, if Luke himself is happy, a thousand small things, each more fraught than the last. Can they even affect that future, from here? The nature of time and space, mysterious as it is, is pinched off here, a remote claudication. It's possible that no memories of this place will remain, if they ever leave.

"Assuming you are from the future, you do realize it's not possible to hide everything. Unless you're planning not to speak with me at all."