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Clarissa Reese’s failure to answer immediately would have told Mike something—all it told Miranda was that she was going to have to wait some more. She allowed her attention to shift back to Kryptos while she waited.
Between subtle shading and the absence of light lies the nuance of illusion.
Actually the solution to the first panel ended with iqlusion, but the reason for that final misspelling had yet to be revealed. Sanborn had said it was either for artistic balance or to make it harder to solve. Personally, she thought that it would factor in as a deeper clue to the fifth puzzle of Kryptos—the one that could only be attempted after the solution of the fourth panel had been found. She knew that subtlety and nuance were not her strengths, but she had made it her life’s goal to shed
