Help from somewhere else, huh? She couldn't say she knew what kind of people could have helped him in the Outside World, just who could have been powerful enough to pull off something like that, but were they in Basel, the answer would have been obvious. Chandelier, the church: no one but the Cardinals and Rowen could have possibly been able to do something like that there.

But did the church hold quite as much power in the Outside World? Asking Zero would have been useless-- he was likely as clueless as she was-- so Leanne filed the question away for later, to ask once she found someone who might know the answer. "I don't know. Someone told me once that Landel himself had a lot of power, but he can't do all of this just by himself, right? It didn't sound like the military was with him, but do you think it's got anything to do with whoever was giving them orders?"