Once again I am rereading Authority

Just a couple of notes:

Rabbits do make it back across the border. Explicitly mentioned.

Whitby may not be a clone, but he's got something akin to a clone or a brightness inside him, peering out. This inner Whitby is the one Control catches incubating. Presumably also the one he catches in the midst of an apparent great trauma? I want so much to understand that scene.

There's a few references to Bourne, Wick and Rachel wandering around, and one passage about when it rains, thousands of tiny brown things erupt from the soil. Alcoholic minnows perhaps!

Whitby also talks about how it's too late and they're out of time. He knows he's turning. Maybe that's why he's so agonized. He's using the biologist's self harm methods to keep the brightness in check. We don't know about those yet but that would make sense that he figured it out.

Control seems not to ask too much after he sees the footage of the first expedition. He was really on the track of something right earlier in the book. The plan to bring in someone with no previous exposure was working with him... But he never actually tells anyone, because, I think, he's so crippled by his past fuckup. After he sees the footage, he's too contaminated to continue the role. That happened on his fourth day. It hasn't even been a week.

This book really is the glue that holds the trilogy together. I love them all, but it's only in Authority I can track some things like this. To observe the people living with the monstrous and trying to figure the monstrous out is so fascinating. Monsters have rules. What are the rules? That's what Authority addresses.