The Inspector has instituted a search for names and permutations of names from the cardinal narratives, and found their traces where one would expect, although Annabel Bekele appears to have been—she considers the word "systematically" and finds it fraught—erased from the digital record, surviving only in ballpoint scribbles on rare atavistic paper forms. The woman who apparently created the System, who betrayed it by creating the Firespine, and then redeemed it in this impossible way, has completed her trick by disappearing entirely.