OK, so if it’s not Dumuzi (presuming he is being honest), and Tobalkin has never evidenced any ‘force field’ manipulation more complex than a collapsing bubble, we are dealing with a tower fabrication. Question is why, and more specifically, why this particular configuration? The tower(s?) have far more processing power than Professor Gage so producing an otherwise unremarkable biological being would have been easy.
Just finished a crawl through relevant parts of the archive. I hope I am wrong about the clues I just strung together. Miko is a very careful and thoughtful person; she’s not going to act hastily in a situation where haste is avoidable.
He rebooted her and slipped her into the thick of things unnoticed.
I’ll tell you right now. YOU ARE.
No one has come close yet. Except maybe cattservant. One reader does know exactly what the deal is, and they are sworn to secrecy.