I’ve been on the road and off the grid.

Originally shared by H. Richard Loeb

I’ve been on the road and off the grid... just picking up on events now.  Looks like I was right to check in on Washington DC.  I didn't expect to see that Target Portal open up there, but I'm not surprised in the least.  When I saw Devra Bogdanovich disappear in that Acolyte video I kind of had a sinking feeling something like this would happen.  Now, we know, and it's a troubling thought.  Devra's not like Hank Johnson.  She hasn't spent a life exploring ancient Portals and running around in deserts getting shot at.  As far as we know, up until Epiphany Night she lived a pretty safe and sheltered life as an academic and researcher.  So, is she a simalucrum... or something else?

Speaking of Hank and simulacrums, it looks like he's back.  Really back.  No longer stuck in that Recursive trap he'd been living.  Whatever happened at the 13MAGNUS nest, it looks like it had the opposite effect on him.  The questions for now are, what really happened at the Nest, and now that he's back, where is he headed and why?  And what about Stein Lightman, Martin Schubert and Yuri Alaric Nagassa?  Or Oliver Lynton-Wolfe?  The silence from them on this incredible turn of events has been noticeable. 

As for A Detection Algorithm.  She's known there was something wrong for a while... information buried inside her has gotten out and she doesn't know how.  Now she's worried that her deep, dark secrets about the Niantic Project may be compromised.  If I were here I'd be worried too.

I wonder what affect this has had on her relationship with Klue S..  Do they trust each other anymore?  Is this part of why they are tearing apart?  Maybe ADA thinks Klue's the leak, but that's not the only possibility, and ADA knows that.

As for me, Klue was right.  I'm not talking about ADA's beginnings.  I have more questions than answers, and the answer I do have... well.  For now, they are staying buried where nobody can get to them.  In me.