Status Updates From People of Darkness (Navajo ...

Getting a little frustrating. Various people died in improbably coincidental ways. It seems like they have a shared cause. That cause is central to the mystery at hand, yet the more clues we get the more it points to what this seemed to be about in the opening chapters. Like, spoiler, how many times do we need it emphasized that the rocks encountered are heavy? The rocks that came from the uranium mine guy?

Wondering where things are going with Mary... because she's consistently a kind of unappealing character, defined by selfishness, hostility, and mockery.