Feeding the Yishma'el has been an exercise in dashing from one cloud to the next. She prefers dark energy, and when not we entered the old song worlds... the secret places that the divine... er Solomon protect from humans and artifact smugglers.
The dead are a touchy subject. But the seed seems to get something from the resonations there.
It does speak. I can only guess the vessel had an design within her hull that supports a living assistant. The intelligence im speaking to will not fully identify itself yet is highly judgemental of my actions.
Flying through the city of light it mentioned the "Dazzling yet dull sights." it prefers watching humans do their business, their stations, seemingly mesmerising I can agree but does it see the decay of man? its filth? Its inability to redeem itself.
I asked it what was so alluring about the mass migrations of humans.
"Flawed is the soil that brings the greatest bounty."