They didn't manage to find a way to prove Lanrey was guilty, but they did manage to prove Theora was innocent. When she was brought in to be interrogated, she was able to explain exactly where she'd been and when, and her roommates found the trainee who had been distributing the mail, who confirmed she couldn't have been near the crime scene at the time it happened. Director Zinistra appeared to be away, so it was the stern Instructor Excelsius De Peridot who led the interrogation, which Theora hadn't foreseen. While she did think him rather inflexible and impartial, the fact that he was a vampire strangely made her uncomfortable about telling him her suspicions about Lanrey. She couldn't get out of her mind what she had heard and seen at the auction, and all while she explained her wherea
