He would have explained if he had the time. That he might have been the same when he'd first got here, but by the time he left... He pushed the thought from his mind.
"This place is - more of a mess than you realise, probably," he agreed. His heart clenched painfully hard, someone of that pain slipping into his expression before he managed to school it back to something more neutral. The number of times he'd wished the Porter had taken him, too. Or him, instead...
"General Hux and Kylo Ren." Bluntly. Just ignore everything else, Dameron. Just power through it. "I don't even know where to start, with those two. But - and this is the important part - there's a truce. We don't touch them. They don't touch us. Because the rules... They just don't make sense, here."
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"This place is - more of a mess than you realise, probably," he agreed. His heart clenched painfully hard, someone of that pain slipping into his expression before he managed to school it back to something more neutral. The number of times he'd wished the Porter had taken him, too. Or him, instead...
"General Hux and Kylo Ren." Bluntly. Just ignore everything else, Dameron. Just power through it. "I don't even know where to start, with those two. But - and this is the important part - there's a truce. We don't touch them. They don't touch us. Because the rules... They just don't make sense, here."