I cannot say I am a fan of the god aspect either. [ higher beings, higher powers... he supposes the closest to that kind of thing is the force, which cassian has honestly never gave a single fuck about. the jedi helped oppress his planet, the force never did him any favors. ] But perhaps my concept of god differs from whatever this world has.

I thought about reaching out to Ball, somehow, as everything I have seen seems to line up with... whatever his logic is.

[ the big old why question, constantly dodging them all. ] I had the sense that the Swiftlet was meant to control me - or whoever's eyes I was seeing through in that particular moment. And it was plunged into my chest, which I do not feel a coincidence. It had happened before, and they wanted to do it again, take me away from where I was and what I had chosen.

I do not know why us, but if we all have pieces of a god, whoever had this Swiftlet apparently wanted to control us, and by extension presumably, that power.