When one half of your face is locked in a perpetual smile, you just gotta express yourself in other ways. No hedging about it. He's, uh, not real about how she's seemingly more bent of workin' out what might strip the gods of their power. Sounds a bit more like Hux, casually dwelling on what it might be to mount an assault on the gods themselves, regardless of who might be in his way. That don't shake out real well for anybody.

So he elects to not answer her question at all. A real sidestepper, this guy. Evasive when he wants to be. "Really not a fan of bein' stuck here, are ya?"