Kylo never learned people at all. It wasn't necessary, with the Force breathing through everything and feeding him everything he needed to know— but he can see something in the shifting performance of this stranger's strange face. It's enough to be intriguing and frustrating in equal measure: something invisible is stirring beneath that pale face, and for once Kylo has no way to chase the rippling effect down to its source.

"But you know them," he presses. "Recognise them. They aren't foreign, to you."