THE UNWANTED GUEST (NONA THE NINTH SHORT STORY) SPOILERS BELOW

that short story gave us so much bullet pointing everything i need to rotate in my head until i understand it below

• the coffin numbers and coffin positions?? there’s GOT to be a clue in there somewhere, i’m not even going to try and decode the coffin numbers (leaving that up to the campal server) but the coffin positions seem to spell out letters? but none that make a word (i got I C D C (ace attorney set/equals sign maybe?) C O C I) so it may be nothing, maybe it helps with the number code somehow?
• the permeability of the soul - i’m inclined to think palamedes is right & ianthe is sticking to her reasoning bc if the soul IS permeable it conficts with her plans (possibly those re: coronabeth? apple cores?)
• if pal IS right what does this mean re john/alecto? the other saints?
• what does it mean re the state of gideon’s soul right now? if nona is the amalgamation of parts of gideon/harrow/alecto, where are all those pieces of their souls now? htn-dream-harrow does have certain gideonlike traits - i remember her making a dirty joke & a few other things i noticed but can’t remember now - but harrow at the end of ntn seemed completely different to harrow at the end of htn - does this have something to do with the state of their souls?
• what’s the “shore”? dulcie says she died again, and pal seems to think this means she ended up there - is this what happened to the souls of the people who went to fight the RB in the river too? g1deon, nonius, ortus, pro, marta? would this definition also hold the people who were swallowed by the stoma - ulysses, augustine? or is it what happened to abigail & magnus when they escaped from harrow’s bubble - they shone with the same blue light dulcie did when they vanished? abigail said she wanted to cross the river - is this the outcome she wanted all along?
• i think the above will DEFINITELY be a major plot point in atn
• what’s with what ianthe says in quotes? at first i assumed she was doing an affected voice or something or is it deeper than that?

so many questions I NEED ALECTO