Marcus cannot have done this. And yet his proximity is so suggestive, so important. Without his presence in the room, this might be done, or be made to appear to be done, by trickery. It would be a mad thing, to work so hard to create this bizarre appearance—but all roads here lead to madness. I must accept the slayer is mad, or the world. Where nothing makes sense, one must put sense aside and acknowledge only what is possible.