"Who can say?" Shiala shrugs. "Perhaps there are certain things they want, and they must wait for them to happen. Perhaps that's not their goal at all and they merely don't wish us to know things."

It's not much of an explanation. She wishes she had better.

"Either way, there's something distinctly unsettling about taking a memory. Sharing is simple enough, but stealing entirely, leaving nothing behind? It's a... violation."