Rareth made a note of a few revelations from what the being was sharing with her. They were synthetics, both this being and these mysterious “Hegemon”. That itself opened up more questions, but Rareth still had to choose what was the most pressing. She really did not know how much time they had to speak. 

“I believe my people may have a way to move you to Outremer. Whether you mean just your mind, or this whole place.” Rareth answered. “But, I do still have questions about the Cradle. Most prominently, what we have encountered here, with you, is far from what I was expecting given what has been happening in the Cradle.” She quickly gestured to her Human associates. “The reason the Humans have allowed my people to assist them is because the Cradle has become a hostile place for them. When the Humans discovered the Cradle centuries ago, they began using it and have organized much of their planet’s administration through it. They created places within the simulation for themselves, but they never encountered any intelligent life within until recently. This intelligence has sent creatures to abduct and kill Humans within the simulation, and the reports I have seen have implied that some Human minds have been taken and incorporated into this being, or beings. Do you have any idea what might be happening? Is this something you might expect, or could something have gone wrong?”

Rareth paused just a moment as she overlayed a relevant document onto her HUD. “If it helps, I have the report of a Rothian who spoke to one of these creatures. It spoke like a child at first, claiming to have lost its ‘toys’ far away. Then it changed its voice and said it remembered little of what it was, but it did recall the Rothians.”