[Pieces. Her brow furrows. That makes her recall some of what Ball said, making it seem as if they could ... have that inside of them. Some piece. Something connected but not. She recalls, again, Sniper's exaggerated reaction to it: the way they insisted on having it taken out of them. That they wanted nothing to do with it.]

Ball said that they were looking for the gods in deep depths. That this single god was "spread all around." Everything we've learned since makes it seem as if we're touched, like the people we saw in the ruins. [A beat.] But I don't know that those experiences match ours, not exactly.

What I do know is that we keep ending up connected. More and more, actually. Jyn doesn't like the gods part and—frankly? Neither do I. But it's the only thing that's happened to make sense of things for me. The only question is ... [She draws her arms toward her, crossing them over her torso.]

Why us? That's where even that theory begins to lose me. Whether intentional or not, we'd be connected to these gods. Right? Why though?