June 1, 2013
Right Name, Wrong Man

Hi, it's Sarah. Josh couldn't post today.

We've received terrible news. The man Josh pushed into the street was not Malcolm Jonovich. Or rather he was, but he was not the puppet master we sought out. He was just another pawn, although we can't be sure if it was entirely unwilling. Certainly the real threat was using something less detectable than full mental domination of the man who died. Myron monitored the situation remotely thanks to Josh and declared he was not possessed of another's will. Needless to say both Myron and Josh are devastated. Certainly Josh feels the brunt of it since...

I hate to say this and I mean absolutely nothing, except to point it out... Josh could have bounced the man's head off a streetlight or knocked him flat on his face on the sidewalk and given him an extra knock against the stone. We decided as a group after all that if it became the difference between one or more lives and that man's life we would take him out. That's easy enough given it would come down to Josh to do it. The chances of one of the others of us getting that close to the manipulator would be too low given how cagey he was.

Malcolm triggered the two women's attacks, but that could have been with a simple instruction anyone could have given them to make them do what that they had been manipulated to do. It's hard to understand just what was done to their minds and how they were set to go off like dominoes.

We were first put onto Malcolm by the Protectorate. They had done the initial legwork and we took over from them. Then they got pointing us back to Malcolm when we lost him. I don't blame the Protectorate, but at the same time they are just as responsible as we are for what happened.

Tags: Joshua Rhoads, Malcolm Jonovich, murder, Myron Nath, The Protectorate, Sarah Jayne, surveillance, victim.