"shoots thon rising germinal"

-Bellman.

Sally's dead. Well, she wasn't really Sally. She was a Nobody, trying to steal her life from her. We know this because we found the real Sally-- by accident.

Our talk with the SMSC agents led us to visit the local headquarters, see if we could get some more information. Ishmael pulled out his secret weapon (a pocketwatch the Manufactured Newborn is looking for, rumoured to be the same one it spawned from) and we entered the building, the others finding a place to park the van. While we waited for the manager, two ladies came in as well and were told to have a seat. I thought one of them looked an awful lot like Sally, but we figured it was a coincidence. Besides, she smelled like she hadn't showered in months. So instead we just waited.

Turned out the SMSC wanted to buy the thing off of us. That's not how we operate, unfortunately (I would love to be able to afford better equipment for our work), so Ishmael was already heading for the door when the other lady (the one who didn't look like Sally) asked if he was trying to summon the Newborn. They talked with each other about that, exchanging information (and, from the looks of it, blogs), and then the rest of our team came in. Including our own Sally. And everyone went silent there as we realized what was going on. But then she was on the ground, bleeding out from a bullet in her chest. And the other lady told the SMSC to "clean up your damn Nobody." And they left. We made sure to leave, as well, before the manager came back in to see what was going on.

So we're all a little lost. But we know their names: Issy and Sally. And Ishmael says he knows how to summon the Newborn now. We're back on the road, one member down but apparently she wouldn't have been much help anyway. Nobody is a cruel god that mimicks a person, ultimately replacing them, we're not sure for what purpose. The Genera supposedly knows, but it's not speaking.

Considering we got the tip asking us to work on this case from her, and she was a Nobody... what does that mean?