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deemed it prudent to begin establishing myself as anxious to assist in fashions other than technical, pointing to my established lack of progress in penetrating the system i had chosen to attack. by that time, i had already come to the conclusion that the team of intrusion specialists i was directing would be capable of achieving the desired results on their own, given sufficient time and motivation.

unsurprisingly, ba'al was initially hesitant to provide me with any access beyond that which i had already been given. despite this mistrust, i reminded him that i was possessed of a number of skills that might prove useful, playing upon his fascination with my previous identity and establishing myself as a less principled version of same. while it remained difficult to strike the correct balance between willing to cooperate and true to ba'al's experience of my previous self, i remained determined to present the picture of an individual who was restless with the tasks he had been given and interested in fieldwork to further ba'al's goals and the goals of fmi, to the extent that those goals had been explained to me.

through multiple attempts to persuade ba'al that my talents were being wasted in the role i had been assigned, and due to my established willingness to cooperate with directions i had been given and tasks i had been assigned, i succeeded, by mid-february, in being in the right place at the right time to be

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