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It wasn't any good to put it off any longer. Poe deserved to know the truth and Rey was looking forward to having a brother - a half-brother - to get to know better. It should be easy, really. How much about their relationship - General to Commander - would this change? How much could it? She had commanded a full military Resistance for half a decade and yet, for some reason, this seemed more difficult.

Leia found herself hesitating outside of Poe's quarters in the same way she had outside of Rey's before they talked. Then, she brought forth all of her years of political preparation and experience and touched the pad beside the door to chime in for Poe. She spent the time waiting for him to come to the door going over the best way to talk to him about this. In the end, she decided all it would take, she was pretty sure, was to be up front and tell him the truth. She was his commanding officer, after all, and she knew him well enough to know that's what he'd prefer.

She smiled at him when the door opened between them. "Poe," she said. "Do you have a minute?"