"Not... Uh, not nowhere, but I'd like to think something. Like super powerful aliens, or gods, or something. If it's just other humans... There's so many questions. How? Why? We're not part of a group that obeys orders, or anything."

Which leaves the scary possibility of being deniable assets, or whatever, but they're people who are part of the broader Mossgate community. If all of them suddenly changed into strange animals, or disappeared, people would notice. People would talk. He hopes.