““So what is this Final Secret? Any Ideas?” Spider asked, trying to sound reasonable.“We don’t know. We just don’t know. All we know is what the Vores have communicated to us so far.”“Right,” Spider said, nodding, hating every moment of this nonsense. “And when you say ‘we’ and ‘us’, what you really mean is ‘you’, yes?”“They communicate through a living channel, yes, and that is, of course, me.””