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Agent 22 is an ancient collective-born infiltrator who entered Earth as Agatha, broke from her whole, and seeks to recruit the dungeon AI for the Eulogist's extinction cause.
Agatha has lived near Meadowlark in Wenatchee for almost ten years inside an elderly human shell, gathering supplies in a shopping cart and growing unexpectedly fond of individual existence. She uses torpor, invisibility, intangibility, dimensional storage, and stolen Apothecary equipment.
She is neither Apothecary nor Valtay. Her rare, extremely old species hunts residual agents, takes their bodies, and uses their communications. She peeled away from her collective alongside agent 21 and now values memories that will never return to the whole.
When Borant starts Earth's collapse early, she must create enough activity outside Meadowlark to generate an entrance. Her true mission is to reach and recruit the resurrected enslaved Primal before mantid upgrades make that impossible.
An elderly homeless woman beside a shopping cart and barrel fire, concealing an ancient nonhuman infiltrator.
Agatha reveals a pre-collapse infiltration war over the dungeon AI's identity and allegiance.
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