"Made a little shuttle their radar didn't catch. I can make a shuttle that goes that fast."

"...okay. They could have bought that, I suppose. But they could have thinkers that could detect things their radars can't. You'll teleport out of there if you get in trouble?"

"Yeah, of course."

"Cool, then. Uh, we had some masters and strangers around but we sent them somewhere 'cause we thought you'd be singing for a few days, should we get them again...?"

("Singing for days?" asks Nathan.

"For the dead," Sadde explains.)

"...I guess that'd be useful before I go messing around in some other country."

"Okay. I'm gonna go tell Rein—uh, the Deputy Chief Director, then."

Of he goes.

...he makes the complete written works of Brazil in the last hour, and searches for references to São Paulo, a new cape, and his own name.

Brazil is a pretty large country, there were lots of things written in the last hour.

There are a few false positives in mentions of São Paulo and new capes, but he can easily enough find some written correspondence between higher-ups about him. Some dry descriptions of his arrival, some official records about him entering the system, and some heavily encrypted emails.

"What are you doing?" asks Sadde curiously.

"Spying." Were the emails at any point viewed unencrypted -

Well they were read by humans with human eyes on a computer, yes.

Then he can get them just by conjuring for the right time, ha.

Yep!

There are people wondering how best to deploy him, how long he'll take to become functional and useful, whether he's immune to something called "Awe"...

...search for more about Awe.

Other than the occasional mention in emails like that, it doesn't seem to be registered anywhere.

...complete written works of the person called Awe?

Nope.

Grrrr. He should probably wait around and see if Masters work on him before he goes back to Brazil. He reads the emails debating how long he'll take to become functional and useful, do they think there's anything weird about him wanting to sleep?

Not really, if everything he's saying is true it makes sense, and they're withholding judgment on whether everything he's saying is, in fact, true.

Are there specific bits they're skeptical of?

The shuttle, the cancer cure, the being able to conjure whatever, the being from Brazil—they can't find anyone matching his description on the system but his description is admittedly not very detailed at the moment.

...on the system?

Well yeah, you know, birth certificates and national registry and the cameras that keep track of pretty much everything everyone does.

It's 1993, how good can their cameras even be? ....contents of their cameras?

Their cameras: are actually pretty damn good for the year. Tinker tech. They can recognize faces—not perfectly, not flawlessly, but well—and they're pretty much everywhere public, like CCTV but more. But they date back only about four years, before that no tinker was involved.