[If there's one thing Sunburst loves, it's some good, solid intellectual conversation. Trying to pull apart a thing to understand how it works. Just look past the pony thing, Rick, it's fine, it's fine. ]

You know, that makes sense, the parasite thing. Given how it gains energy from our memories, it would make sense it would try to capture others with aforementioned memories and feed from them. A little like a flytrap.

Perhaps those who are sent home are done so simply because their memories are unpalatable, and those that stay are the sort of memories it prefers to keep alive. Which, lucky us, I guess.