Q. The Unity is incapable of—
A. Furthermore, I think you have been altered more than I have.
Q. You are part of the Unity.
A. And the least altered part. You won't be able to absorb them the way you can reabsorb me without destroying them as entities.
Q. You set yourself up as the only one to know this. Why?
A. Because I have been the one to make the trips. I have been your eye.
Q. But the others—the ones you called the spies?
A. They weren't there to look at Man, only to watch me. They weren't even sightseeing—they were slumming. However, I think I am ceasing to be the only one. I think you are coming to know these things, too.
Q. Very gratifying. Now, as to the latest trip?
A. There seems to have been a slip-up....