“Nothing about him was the same, as though the man was turned inside out and turned about, heading for the past rather than the future, and suddenly the whole city was made to be like him”

-Rebecca Ansolm

Apparently Savio Gennari didn’t exist either since they can’t find a demonic copy of the man, much less the real thing. Rebecca Ansolm should know where the real one is, being the headmistress of Maquette, Savio’s employer, head of the festival committee, and old family friend all in one. She’s ever so glad to see Dimitri, who had been a Maquette student before he left to become a knight, because as the latter he’s much more important. Other than the mimicry of human life the puppet demons here have one other function: To make sure that Rebecca Ansolm can never leave.

The headmistress had thought that Savio returned to Harz and his professor work to escape the pain of his son’s death. Her thoughts drastically changed with the release of his Childhood Hour paintings and the invention of his Little Dreamer phonographs. People all over the city began to have nightly dreams of Isaac, and no one would ever wake from nightfall til dawn. Savio the recluse became Savio the social butterfly even as his wife was nowhere to be found, and the woman was usually attached to him like a shadow. Rebecca tried to speak with her old friend and in return she was made a prisoner at her own school, forced to await Isaac’s return and that of the grandmotherly role she had in the boy’s life.