"Tell him, Johnny," Martin spoke. "There may be more involved in telling him than we know. The recordings will tell."
"We came here to investigate the dreaming," Johnson spoke.
"Ah," Unger said. Shades of feelings played across his face. "You are the three humans who came asking about the dreaming! I have heard of you."
"We asked for information, knowledge, understanding," Johnson's voice got hard again. "We sought these things. What did we get?"
"You asked for bread and we dreamers gave you a stone," Unger spoke.
"What?" Johnson gasped. The shift to a religious framework startled him. He had not thought that a Venusian understood such things.
"Perhaps the stone we gave you was more palatable than the bread you asked for," Unger continued.
"But—"
"However, when your request was denied, you did not stop seeking?" Unger asked.
"Of course not! We don't belong to a race that stops seeking. We sought other ways to get the information."