[ she let the words settle around her as she tried to match up what he said and what she knew and could truthfully find no hole in his logic. ]
I believe I understand what you're saying, but regardless of the true reason for our abduction, we are still imprisoned. That much, at least, seems to be true.
However... if this is an experiment, what do you suppose their end goal to be? Surely it's not just to see how well we cooperate when faced with luxury over hardship. Or... [ she paused, thinking back to conversations she's had with Tear. ] Perhaps this is simply to see if the AI's are capable of adapting? I was told that the previous dome had some particularly interesting developments in that area.