It's possible that everything Kylo says is a promise. He may not have the richness of the Force heavy at his back, but the intensity of every deliberate word suggests commitment. There's a strange, crackling current of energy threaded into the low thrum of his voice. Determined would be one word for it, perhaps, but it's bigger than that. Relentless.

"It freed me," he says. "When they tried to kill me. It can free you, too."