"I kinda wonder if we're duplicates somehow. Like we just got a new body an' kept truckin' on back home. But that probably ain't a thing so whatever. I done give up on the tetherin' except for figurin' out how to link to a ship."

But then he cracks up despite the dour subject.

"I'll get you some Kree schematics. Best thing about Kree technology is that they make it so they can be compatible with any other culture they overrun- to a degree, anyway. It uses electricity and circuits? It'll figure it out. I'll put that shit in your hands and I can take a little mean satisfaction that they'd hate other people usin' it so willy nilly."