I'll be interested tomorrow to see if Ardent is going to react by saying: "Don't be silly Alice, you're paranoid" or by saying: "Oh my God, you are right, how could I have been so naïve?"
If Alice is inclined to listen to Ardent's reply (which I doubt), it would most likely be a babbled denial that he had been a pawn and is stated in such terms that it is clear he doesn't know what he has supposed to have done or understands of what Alice is accusing him. Which makes sense; whoever is responsible for this (and I'm looking at some oh-so-zen-acting trees) would have needed to have
entirely innocent dupes; Alice is so old and experienced that she would probably have seen through any dissembling or artifice at once.
Now, I wonder... was the Night Walker really attacking Gavia... or was it attacking
Ardent? If it was the latter, then it fits into my theory that its nanobots are part of the mechanism of the Blink.
P.S.I think that the next strip is on Thursday, not tomorrow.
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