I don’t see how these panels are connected

Thanks for your feedback. Here is a walkthrough of what I intended for the reader to experience. Perhaps it falls short.

First, she asks a group of five people if she can join their telepathy club.

At first they are all looking at each other, as if to gauge each others’ willingness to accept her into the group. You may assume they are looking at each others’ facial expressions to see what the other people think about her request.

However, then it shows seemingly random people in other places, doing other activities: swimming, business deals, hair salon, working on telephone wires.

Then it switches back to the first group, who have come to a decision. You realize that the random people were all part of the telepathy club too, and they were communicating telepathically to consider her request.

Wow, how did I not understand this by myself. I am currently even watching Pluribus where this exact same situation happens >_<