As the two come nearer, the object floating in the blue tractor beam seems to be sharp-edged, tiny. It looks very much like a fragment of glass, a piece of a camera lens even, except--



not quite.

And as they get nearer, the figure resolves into an old man. "Indeed. Congratulations," he says. "You have completed the empathy game. A high achievement. That is your prize, much good as it'll do to you."