It's none of your business why I left. That's between myself and the General.
[And the tone he uses might be one he's familiar with. When Leia wanted a subject dropped she made it clear.]
Oh, you'll have no reason to worry about me killing you if you keep any stories you might have about me to yourself. I'm not worried about what Rey knows or doesn't know, because I don't keep things from her. As long as we're on the same page, you and I should work together just fine.
['Just fine' might be the understatement of the century. He sighs, running a gloved hand through his hair.]
I don't want this interfering with whatever it is the other Rifters have planned. Do you think you can just trust me when I say that you don't want the whole story and I have no intention of ever giving it to you.
[The last thing he wanted was to paint his mother in an unfavorable light to Poe. He was her protege. He deserved to see her as she was: a decorated and celebrated General, not a mother who had made mistakes and lost her son to the dark side.]
no subject
[And the tone he uses might be one he's familiar with. When Leia wanted a subject dropped she made it clear.]
Oh, you'll have no reason to worry about me killing you if you keep any stories you might have about me to yourself. I'm not worried about what Rey knows or doesn't know, because I don't keep things from her. As long as we're on the same page, you and I should work together just fine.
['Just fine' might be the understatement of the century. He sighs, running a gloved hand through his hair.]
I don't want this interfering with whatever it is the other Rifters have planned. Do you think you can just trust me when I say that you don't want the whole story and I have no intention of ever giving it to you.
[The last thing he wanted was to paint his mother in an unfavorable light to Poe. He was her protege. He deserved to see her as she was: a decorated and celebrated General, not a mother who had made mistakes and lost her son to the dark side.]