[ Poe freezes as soon as he sees that familiar red gas giant glow to life overhead. It's fine, this is fine, it can be any one of thousands of memories--
Then he hears that kid's voice asking that question and the bottom drops out of the world.
"Was I ever scared?" Kes Dameron says. He's bigger than Poe, even as an adult, built heavier and taller, but they have the same nose. The same eyes. Poe grabs Finn's wrist this time, like if he holds the other man back, he can stop this memory from playing out. It's too personal. It's too personal, and he's suddenly dizzy with the wish that he hadn't seen Finn's memory, either.
But it's all around them. There's no city, just the ranch, the jungle, their family house in the distance with the faint glow of its Force tree in the gathering dark.
"When I was on the ground, back at Endor..."
And because he can't do anything else about it, because the only control he can exercise is giving himself away, Poe says,] That's my dad.
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Then he hears that kid's voice asking that question and the bottom drops out of the world.
"Was I ever scared?" Kes Dameron says. He's bigger than Poe, even as an adult, built heavier and taller, but they have the same nose. The same eyes. Poe grabs Finn's wrist this time, like if he holds the other man back, he can stop this memory from playing out. It's too personal. It's too personal, and he's suddenly dizzy with the wish that he hadn't seen Finn's memory, either.
But it's all around them. There's no city, just the ranch, the jungle, their family house in the distance with the faint glow of its Force tree in the gathering dark.
"When I was on the ground, back at Endor..."
And because he can't do anything else about it, because the only control he can exercise is giving himself away, Poe says,] That's my dad.