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[Update] Anna Heath Blog - Isotope Alarms : Friday 21st July
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 		[Update] Anna Heath Blog - Isotope Alarms : Friday 21st July
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It looks like a lot of progress is being made, toward... something. Kurt has been keeping me up-to-date with his progress in cracking the Crypto department, and I had just one little task to perform to round out this isotope-tracking scheme of his. (Which, by the way, sounds suspiciously inspired by a very popular adventure game from when Kurt was around ten years old. I'm not offering criticism, since his strange ideas have a habit of working out, but in this case, biting my tongue is proving difficult.)

That one little task was to visit Henrik again and persuade him to disable any isotope alarms the Academy may have in place. Kurt doesn't know what kind of tag his Karen will come up with, and he's worried that Security will detect our shenanigans and step in before the trap can be sprung. It wouldn't be much use to have our goods seized by the authorities for suspicious tampering, would it? And for all we know, the Academy is rigged to alert security if any sort of isotope is detected outside a few select labs, just as a measure to prevent misuse of laboratory resources.

So I arranged to meet Henrik in Polygon Park again, yesterday in the early evening. It's funny, after all these years, how quickly the feeling of awkwardness has faded. We sat together on a bench watching the sun setting, and it all seemed very comfortable, just a pair of old friends talking about old times.

Except, of course, that wasn't what we talked about at all. I explained just the barest sketch of our plan -- that I had some suspicion regarding what parts might go missing next, and that I planned on setting an isotope tag to find where it disappeared to.

Henrik gave me one of those long, steady gazes of his and asked what information I'd found, exactly.

I told him about finding those files in the Crypto department. His eyebrows climbed up to the clouds when I told him about the audio diaries, and about how poor Karen was being blackmailed to spy for some shadowy third party. (Which, by the way, I'm trying very hard not to think about too much.)

I did try to conceal the existence of the others in our merry band, though I think I probably let slip more than I'd wanted to. But -- honestly, half the CRT hanging around the Cryptology Department is surely gossip for every junior fellow and guest lecturer on campus, by now. If Henrik doesn't have an inkling I'm in on something with Kurt and Caine, I'll eat my key.

Still, he seemed to take me at my word and didn't press for any details of my investigation. When I'd finished talking, Henrik nodded, slowly. "I'm surprised you've found results so fast," he said. "Don't worry, I'll arrange for discretion for your isotope tags. I'll just set the alert threshold much higher for a few weeks. That should be long enough?"

"I hope so," I said, fervently. "Thank you."

He reached over and squeezed my hand for a second. "I could never refuse you anything, Anna," he said, and then he stood up and was on his way.


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 		Poor Henrik. Anna's playing on his love for her. His heart is going to be broken all over again. Crying or Very sad

I didn't even think about there being sensors in the academy for isotopes. Go figure. I'm ready to make some actual progress!!! Hopefully this will get somewhere soon. I'm sure everything will explode after wave 4 is released.

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