In Gathering Blue, what does Kira mean when she tells Thomas that the two of them can "make it different" when they fill in the blank places?

In Kira's society, people with handicaps are not allowed
to stay in the village. They are banished to "another" place. Kira has a deformed leg.
She was not sacrificed at birth because of this deformity since her mother was the only
one with skills at dyeing and weaving patterns. Her mother pleaded for her daughter's
life, and the child was allowed to live. Kira's mother taught her the trade of dyeing
threads, a trade no one else in the village had. At her mother's death, Kira is taken in
by the Committee to live in a community "home" to practice the skills that only she
knows. Other orphans are there to nurture their specific skills as well. Kira discovers
not all is as it should be in her village, and she hopes to change the ways of her
people by using those youngster's special talents to subtly make those changes. The
oppressive ways of the Committee could be undermined by using those special talents to
teach change to the everyday, ordinary ways of her people.