‘So I did. Lenses of dark matter, swimming in the heart of the Sun. Schools of photino fish. But they were bigger – much bigger – fifty metres across, more?’
Nicola shrugged. ‘So, when the Ghosts went trawling in the heart of this star, the way we did in Sol, they brought back samples. But small fry. Literally, maybe. The youngest.’
‘Why? Why capture dark-matter creatures?’
‘For the same reason they captured humans. Curiosity. Not scientific curiosity, though, as we understand it. Not abstract . . .’
-Xeelee: Redemption, Ch. 20