Status Updates From Authority (Southern Reach, #2)

"He wasn't sure he knew the difference anymore between what he was meant to find and what he'd dug up on his own. A tower could become a pit. Questioning a biologist could become a trap. An expedition member might even return thirty years later in the form of a voice whispering strange nothings in his ear."

“The last fragment of video remained in its own category: Unassigned. Everyone was dead by then, except for an injured Lowry, already halfway back to the border. Yet for a good 20 seconds the camera flew above the glimmering marsh reeds, the deep blue lakes…toward the lighthouse. Dipped and rose, fell…and soared again. With what seemed like a horrifying enthusiasm. An all-consuming joy.”

Shitt

Still lost :(

“The note on the biologist was the most extensive… ‘Not a very good biologist. In a traditional sense. Empathetic more towards environments than people. Forgets the reasons she went, who is paying her salary. But becomes embedded to an extraordinary extent. Would know Area X better than I do from almost the first moment…What would she be in Area X? A signal? A flare? Or invisible? Exploit.’”