The Motives...

The ending looms on the horizon.  And yes!  Only now am I figuring out where the antagonists stand. And there are way too many of them. rather too many groups of them.

And I don't get what they want. Other than they can't be on K's side cause then, why doesn't she just join forces and further contribute to her passive bystander role?

And they can't join forces together: the antagonists must have opposing goals. or else why wouldn't they tell each other "stuff" about who's who, etc. and then K is in jail. which I didn't want that way.  

So not sure how to resolve that bit yet. 

It'll be interesting once it's done to figure out how much is actually working vs. how much I just imagined was working vs. how much I thought wasn't working is actually just fine.

did any of it work??

Course I need to get another 30 to 40k before I get to have perspective on the thing. (I know, even then it's with author brain but it'll be a little more clued in then right now...)