Flashback ( PDFDrive )

addler, so no one can tell he’s wearing it. He bragged about it. A lot.”
Addlers were gadgets that made it impossible to focus on
someone’s face.
“Well,” Sophie said, struggling to wrap her weary mind around that.
“That’s . . . weird. But we know his full name is Ruy Ignis, so we just
have to look up his registry file—”
“Won’t help. He told me he had their Technopath wipe any records
of his appearance. Don’t ask me why he cares, but . . . yeah. And you
know what else we don’t know? Who their Technopath is. The only
other member of the Neverseen I met is Trix—and the only things I
know about him are that he’s a Guster and Trix isn’t actually his name.
See what I mean? All this time—all our planning and scheming and
searching. All the risks we’ve taken. All the times we’ve almost died.
And we still don’t know anything about our enemies or what they’re
planning or what they want. We don’t even know who’s actually in
charge right now! And we’ve never figured out what the Lodestar
Initiative is—or maybe I should say was, since we also don’t know if
they’re still going by it. Just like we don’t know why Fintan was
keeping a list called Criterion, or why they made all those barrels of
soporidine, or what the Nightfall facility my mom built was supposed
to be used for, or why Vespera and Fintan abandoned it and moved to
the facility under Atlantis—we couldn’t even find my mom’s stupid
Archetype, remember?”
Sophie definitely hadn’t forgotten.
The last time they’d seen the thick book that supposedly outlined
all of Lady Gisela’s plans, Vespera had been holding it in Nightfall—
and Sophie had been sure they’d find it when they went back and