I've a few questions and will try to remember to come back to edit them if I find the answers for myself.
For days the kestrel was trying to keen the interest of the old man so that he would hopefully follow to become the right man in the wrong place? The hidden and unnaturally created place where he fell and discovered the Shu’ualathoi were housed in their coffins, was this a place for them to recuperate within the coffins or is this a source of where they So here the being in the blue suit is It and not the Agent. Does this mean that the Agent(s) will sometimes assume It's form when tending to the debts and whatnot? Or did It assume the form of the Agent(s)?
UwU ~ Thanks for reading and thanks for the compliments! Indeed, Its Kestrel wanted to recruit and test the old man (who basically is Octo before I decided to call them that pre-transformation. Of course all the other stories involving the Agent are Connexione then Feral Canine then A New Cadaver). Also yeah I probably should mention this that barely got hinted at in Unholy utterance: the Shu'ulathoi are a fragmented species spread across the entire Universe. It was testing to see if the "ghost" kids were indeed Shu'ulathoi or real ghosts; It got Its satisfaction soon enough (what that satisfaction is, I shall leave in the air as to what It really prizes with this newfound information). Otherwise, this tribe of Shu'ulathoi were resting in the coffins (or really pods, the Old man thought they were coffins because of the "ghost" kids). It can shape-shift/transmutate forms, the Agent(s) cannot.
Thanks for the response to my questions and the added story info Felix!