Work: Linda
Dr. Branwen faded from Linda's conscious mind, though the rage she felt about his cavalier and cold demeanor still burned in her subconscious, as she dove deep into her psychotherapy app, working hard to make sure that whatever happened to this "Cassius Talos" would not be like what had happened to her. Dr. Branwen watched her via his observation app as she used the psychosurgery app's algorithms to identify and isolate mental activity, classifying it as "Cassius" or "Nanovirus" and building in mental walls between them. Of course, without an accompanying physical quarantine, her psychological quarantine would only be temporary, but it would at least halt the damage.
Linda was done in half an hour; it had not been difficult, especially given that the psychosignature of the nanovirus was wildly different from that of a human. A puzzle still remained, however. While she had successfully separated the two minds and built defenses between them, she had identified a third set of psychological patterns that fit into their the human nor the nanovirus; it was something entirely new. It did not have the hallmarks of transhuman psychology, nor that of any uplift she had worked on, and it was sufficiently different from the diffuse, limited, confused nanovirus hivemind to lead her to believe that this was not an extension of it.
Dr. Branwen seemed just as startled as she when she finished. "What is that? Those leftover memories and neural fragments..." Now it was Linda's turn to watch as the corvid doctor took control of the surgery, quickly flipping through data on the residual third mind. She only caught some of what the crow was doing, but caught glimpses of memories of alien worlds and impossible shapes.
The crow actually cawwed in shock. "These are false memories! They don't exist! They were created from nothing." Linda did not see what the big deal about that was; false memory implantation was a common criminal trick. A government one, too.
Something of her thoughts must have showed on her face, because Dr. Branwen clapped his beak shut irritably. "Yes, I know that's possible. But the temporality... look at the data." Linda obliged, and saw what he saw then: the "new" memories created contained neurological data that the mind was classifying as happening in the future and distant past. This new mind seemed to think that it was living in multiple moments of time simultaneously. That was weird, but it did not explain the crow's shock. Perhaps he has more context than I do.
Linda's own conclusion was that the third mind was the result of the fragmentation of the human's mind warped by the nanovirus' machinations; essentially, in fragmenting Cassius' mind, the nanovirus had fundamentally altered the parts it had ripped off in some way. Linda double-checked Cassius' mind, and found that it was much smaller and more limited than it should have been; the nanobots had done some serious damage to it, and they were already working on ways to bypass her mental walls.
If Linda's work was going to be preserved, the patient needed either some sort of countervirus or a nanotech inhibitor. There were medicines in shelves on the walls of the laboratory which might contain something useful, or she could prod her "mentor" to do something, though for now he seemed fascinated by the third mind Linda had found.
Work: Mei//Red Queen
Breaking into the camera's connection was a piece of cake for the Red Queen, and soon the cameras were also feeding information to Mei and the Red Queen. This newfound access let them run a quick check on the identities of the other individuals it was beaming to, and to their surprise they were able to identify the other targets as Sarai Egonu, the head of mining, and a member of the security team stationed down in the mines, Xie Gonji. Mei immediately pegged the security sergeant as the neo-gorilla that Valkyrie had been talking to yesterday who had been so dismissive of the psych team.
The two of them quickly reviewed the camera footage still saved on their local memory, and found a whole range of miners surreptitiously heading down the tunnel, opening up the false rock at the far end of the room, punching in a code, and then having one of the vaults open up. Unfortunately, they could not see what was inside, because the vaults opened in a direction face away from the camera. The code-puncher would then retrieve something from the vault, squirrel it away, and then leave after closing the false rock and vault.
Rarely, someone would seem to do the opposite, placing something in the vault and then leaving. At one point, near the end of the camera's memory, they witnessed Akki dragging a pallet of small crates into the room, opening two of the vaults, and putting the contents of the crates into the vaults. The Red Queen noted that the timestamp for this (last week) would put Akki in the mines outside of his regular shift (assuming his shift was the same as theirs), which was a definite violation of the company guidelines.
As if he had heard them thinking, Akki appeared behind them. "Alright, about time-now to get-return to work-noplay. I know it's hard-difficult when the nanobots do all the work-boring for you-us, but we-you don't want-wish the swarm-minds to be unwatched-free; that's when accidents-mistakes happen. Like poor Cassius-Talos."