Yeah, you've got this. You've spent years tricking children into doing your chores for you, and this guy's acting like a kid. You ask if they can tell you about what they're working on. The Sleepless Philosophe reluctantly explains that all the secrets of all the universes are laid bare in the whispers of the Dwellers Beyond Light, that this whisper is different because it's louder than all the others, that a great and terrible secret is surely encoded therein. So great and so terrible, in fact, that the previous head researcher worked day and night to translate it until at last they succumbed.
Succumbed to what? you ask. The Philosophe doesn't seem to hear you.