"I was kidnapped by Braxiatel just as the 'zombies' began to become hostile and unwillingly dragged off to various unpleasant alternate universes for the next year, so investigating what happened became ever so slightly difficult."

He leaned back in his chair and laced his fingers together.

"But Arkadian was present in the Capitol when it happened so I'll let you make your inferences from that. You have read the files on Mr. Mephistopheles Arkadian, I trust?"