Dr. Elowen Farr, according to the modest, carefully unmarked residence Renna eventually directed them toward on the Anchorage's upper administrative ring, had once held a considerable reputation within consortium academic circles — reputation Renna described, over the course of a brief, careful summary she offered on their walk toward the address, as having collapsed almost entirely within the span of a single disastrous research presentation some six years earlier.
"Presented findings on what she called 'boundary contamination events,'" Renna explained.
