The authors is always the last to know.

. . . oh.

Huh.

Apparently one of the things this book is about? Is identity.

You'd think I would have noticed it sooner, what with the stuff with Eliza and the stuff with Dead Rick and now that I think about it the stuff with Cyma -- come on, Hodge, jump on the bandwagon; you know you want to -- hell, even Owen has identity stuff going on. But no, I had to get nearly 70K into the book before I saw the obvious, and even then I only did because I was grumbling to myself about how many times I've...