Poe grimaces. "That's not really trust," he murmurs, not that he thinks Finn believes that it is either. Perfection is a thing to aim for, but he's seen the Imperial--and the First Order's--version of perfection. It looks a lot like death for a lot of people. "That's the thing that sucks the hope right out of people." It was the reason his parents had left him behind when he was so young and joined in the fight.

"I don't know how much of it is her having been in the Senate, or having been a leader in the rebellion, and how much of it is that spooky Force stuff," Poe says. "And it doesn't really matter. She's the best officer I've ever served under."