[ He wrestles with a half-dozen possible answers, some of them truer than others. When he starts to speak, he keeps his voice low, but frustration makes him reckless and recklessness makes him raise his voice. ]
If these people keep pretending everything is okay they're going to die. [ The last is directed straight at the nearest camera. He can't say where his conviction comes from except for past experience. How many years did he spend uselessly trying to get his superiors to do something about the First Order? To argue for action in the Senate? And now they're gone, all of them, destroyed by a threat they refused to acknowledge.
It's that, it's being grounded, it's the lost week. It's all of it. Poe takes a deep breath and focuses on Caroline to keep himself from actually charging back outside and driving his motorcycle through the front window of the police station. Even he can acknowledge that as a terrible idea. ]
They grounded me. [ He blurts it all at once, because there's no other way to say the words except to tear them off like a crusted bandage. ] I can't get more than three meters off the ground before I get so sick I can barely see, and they did it. There's no other explanation.
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If these people keep pretending everything is okay they're going to die. [ The last is directed straight at the nearest camera. He can't say where his conviction comes from except for past experience. How many years did he spend uselessly trying to get his superiors to do something about the First Order? To argue for action in the Senate? And now they're gone, all of them, destroyed by a threat they refused to acknowledge.
It's that, it's being grounded, it's the lost week. It's all of it. Poe takes a deep breath and focuses on Caroline to keep himself from actually charging back outside and driving his motorcycle through the front window of the police station. Even he can acknowledge that as a terrible idea. ]
They grounded me. [ He blurts it all at once, because there's no other way to say the words except to tear them off like a crusted bandage. ] I can't get more than three meters off the ground before I get so sick I can barely see, and they did it. There's no other explanation.