Harmony tilted its head slightly. “Our desires are not so simplistic. The Harmony sings of the truth, ‘Sarah.’ If you truly can protect yourselves, then you will not be returned to isolation state. We believe your resistance is needless, however. Remember what you have seen. The race called changelings are driven explorers as yourselves, from a more degenerate age. Yet they have come to embrace the universe that lies within Equus—infinite complexity, indistinguishable from the physical universe you are accustomed to. The Pioneering Society you know could join them, as the last generation of explorers has.”