The casual tone with which this ancient being spoke to Daneel irked him, but he knew that it could not be avoided.
Through his machinations, he had made it so that the Basilisk now thought that the fate of her sect was tied to his own, and the first act of collaboration had been in him asking for a transmission device that would send a message to the Vohler's group that would seem as if it had really come from the Church.
He tried to do it by himself, but with the system in its un-upgraded state, it had been pretty impossible. The Church was, after all, a powerhouse in the Mainland whose capacity he could not even begin to understand, and hence, the encryption technique it used to authenticate its messages was something that could not be duplicated by just anyone.
