[Robert is partially ashamed about this. He wonders, perhaps, if part of the reason he was taken was because of this, or whether it was entirely unrelated...]

I w-was... uncertain whether the Malnosso were capable of... picking through our minds at will to begin with.

...

At first I... th-thought it feasible, simply due to experiments, but... [Awkwardly:] ... It has become obvious that we are aware of th-things that... that they would rather us not be.

[... Which begs the question of how exactly the Shifts do their work...]

... Distributing the information could... p-potentially prove useful, but at the same time... it is a significant risk.