It is hard to know what they truly want as yet, beyond the energy we provide them.

[That was the one unshakable fact; anything else was only enough to tally up the guesses, and the variety of possibility within them. One could put together an entire series of boards pointing to all manner of theories for any of the information they held now.]

We have our own goals that must not be jeopardized.

[Getting out of there, together, with their progress, even if all memories might not hold at the destination, but that was a different problem.]