This explanation does little to calm his nerves. Before his unexpected arrival, Cassian was one month in on a six year sentence at a hard labor prison for the crime of... perspiring lightly while on a walk near where some people were running. This constituted "anti-imperial activities", apparently.

So the talk of rape and mind control is leaving him with a panicked feeling of what new fresh hell is he going to be convicted of now, and why do they never manage to arrest him for the things he's actually done?

"What are you talking about?"