The hope flickered, fading, and Poe took his arm back, putting his hands in his pockets.

He tried to shrug casually. “Hey. You know me. Married to the cause, right? It’s kind of fitting.” He wet his lips, watching Finn. “It did help, though. When it wasn’t on at all, it was real easy to just ignore all of that. Which might be backwards, but.” His heart thumped hard enough that he could feel it in his throat.

“Only been a couple months since it lit up,” he admitted, a little too quickly.