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3) Also, when he died, he melted into silver goop. He also persistently wrote things "mirrored," but didn't seem to notice. And his blood came back bizarrely "standard," as if manufactured. <span class="mu-i">And</span> one of his taboo topics was the idea that there could be two of somebody. You determined that, as a matter of fact, there had to be two of them— Fake (or Mirror) Ellery, who kept dying and reviving, and Real Ellery, who was holed up in unreality. Fake Ellery was a decoy meant to distract from the fact that the actual Ellery was missing. You got Real Ellery to more-or-less admit to this, but he claimed to "not have a choice in the matter."
4) He used similar rhetoric about the secret mission you caught him on: he, Anthea, and "Nettie" (actually Pat) seem to regularly venture into people's manses for the purpose of descending into the crack at their center and executing the person inside. After you protested him shooting some guy in the head with a crossbow, he told you that it was "the right thing to do" and that he had "no other choice." The guy he killed seemed okay to you, but the woman you met inside the previous crack was barely a person anymore.
5) Unfortunately, you and Ellery didn't leave on good terms after Madrigal got kidnapped. (You did confirm that he was still very much hung up on her, though.) You turned your attention to a different loose end: a patent Richard dug up with Ellery's name on it. Eloise tried to decipher it for you, but only managed to figure out that it was for Headspace Corp., described a product called the "E.Z.-M.A.N.S.E.," and was deliberately written to obfuscate what the product did. She also didn't think that Ellery wrote it.
6) Fake Ellery was cagey about the patent, but confirmed that Ellery did some freelancing for Headspace around a year ago (but was no longer working for them). You promptly investigated Headspace yourself, discovering that its employees were trapped inside the offices, routinely drugged, and monitored by their "Upper Management"— the same Management that's been threatening Pat. Also, at least one employee told you she's seen doppelgangers around this. Fake Ellery claimed to know nothing about any of this... but he's not exactly a reliable source.
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