I'm not sure I'm picking up with what madame_ugly said about how the Beakers knew about Kristen's plan. All those plans Loki's executing on the roof and in the tower... putting Nervous' powers to use, whatever that means... tipped the Beakers off to Lola, Pascal, and Kristen's counterschemes? How?

I'm glad you seem to have rein over all the threads in your story, but the plot's so agonizing to predict when you're a slow reader like me. Guess I'm just not familiar with this kind of genre (action/fantasy/adventure)?