"I don't think so," Jyn answered, frowning thoughtfully. It wasn't necessarily unlike that, but phrasing it that way seemed to suggest something deliberate that she truly didn't believe was a factor here. Maybe it was just the result of some innate cynicism, but she was more inclined to think that this place was cruel in its randomness and random in its cruelty, rather than there being anything intentional or insidious at play. "It's more like..."
She huffed out a quiet breath. She really was not the right person for this job, and yet there was no one else she would have wanted to tell him what she was still clumsily trying to work up to. "If you think about this place as its own world, or universe, or something," she settled on. "Completely separate from anything. And then over here you have this massive jumble of everything else. Every world, every time. And every once in a while, someone gets pulled out of that giant heap of possibilities and dropped here. The odds of it being the same person more than once are low, but it's bound to happen from time to time."
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Date: 2025-05-11 07:22 pm (UTC)She huffed out a quiet breath. She really was not the right person for this job, and yet there was no one else she would have wanted to tell him what she was still clumsily trying to work up to. "If you think about this place as its own world, or universe, or something," she settled on. "Completely separate from anything. And then over here you have this massive jumble of everything else. Every world, every time. And every once in a while, someone gets pulled out of that giant heap of possibilities and dropped here. The odds of it being the same person more than once are low, but it's bound to happen from time to time."