"All you required to initiate the Seed project was the rational, 
analytical mind of a nanotechnological engineer. I fit the bill perfectly. You 
dropped me into the society of the Drummers like a seed into fertile soil, and 
my knowledge spread through them and permeated their collective mind—as 
their thoughts spread into my own unconscious. They became like an extension of 
my own brain. For years I laboured on the problem, twenty-four hours a day.