Hackworth Receives an Ambiguous Message Summary

Kidnapper carries Hackworth around the city. The engineer finds a few fortune cookies in a compartment of his mechanical mount. He opens one of them and finds a mysterious message enjoining him to seek the Alchemist. The horse brings him to a park located near the beach. Hackworth sees a naked woman covered with shimmering bits of lights. He gets off the mechanical horse and start following the woman. She disappears under the waves and Hackworth is sucked underwater and into a cave. The woman reappears and he follows her through some tunnels which end in a dome-like room partially covered by a huge screen.

Hackworth Receives an Ambiguous Message Analysis

This chapter narrates an almost surreal series of events that takes Hackworth through the city of Vancouver and into the Drummers' hideout, located in...