Inquisitor Cardenal Jafet Moreno de Zepeda: wheeled, scowling, studying the room with a steely glare. At the ball his particular interest was Axel and Kharkov, and his question about the bear arrived in the tone of a man filing evidence: sorcery? His suspicion of the foreign company predates any justification for it. It is now entirely justified, which he presumably counts as vindication.