She was appointed to this task. If she cannot track Lönnrot—if Lönnrot is invisible and Smith may be eaten by an impossible shark; if the Witness may blink, after all, and Hunter can elude the inquisition of the machine—it seems that her opponents also do not dare erase her, or care to—and nor can they ignore the process of her investigation, or position some collaborator to the task. They are new, then, or few in numbers, or bounded and constrained in some fundamental way. Such being so, they can be defeated, uncovered and excised, and the System can be fixed.