Minutes and seconds passed by. Eventually, the exchange of knowledge ended.
In the process, both the Knowers and Mycroft gained brand new understanding of each other. Having once shared the perspective of the Great Khan and most other Multiverse civilizations, Joshua and the others imagined the Knowers to be a hostile race that used any means necessary, even destroying other civilizations, just to gather knowledge from others. It had been precisely why their race was known as a civilization of calamities, and so, the Mycroft civilization communicated with them under the assumption that they were hostile.
