"Uh, I want to get to that later.  I am 'only an egg' in this art; the Old Ones are past masters.  They stayed linked with me but left me on my own, ignored me - then they triggered me and all that I had seen and heard and done and felt and grokked poured out of me and became part of their permanent records.  I don't mean that they wiped my mind of my experiences; they simply played the tape, so to speak, made a copy.  But the triggering I was aware of - and it was over before I could possibly do anything to stop it.  Then they dropped me, cut off the linkage; I couldn't even protest."