"Oh!" she breathes, almost gentle. "This, of course. This is part of it. You would not be human if you did not sympathise. She has created these stories to be sympathetic. You and she want the same thing, if in different ways. You want to know her secrets, she wants you to know them—the only difference in your perspectives is that she does not want you to know her as text, she needs you to see through her eyes. ‘At the last ,’ she tells you, ‘ you must become like me in order to solve me.’ "