
In the penultimate chapter, Mosca realizes he's actually a cold-blooded Birdcatcher fanatic. Linden Kohlrabi in Fly by Night presents himself to Mosca as a gentleman and dedicated to snuffing out evil.Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: There are deceivers worse than Eponymous Clent in the Fractured Realm.Quite fitting for a woman whose beauty and nobility is only skin deep. Lady Tamarind from Fly By Night is clean and powdered to the point of being immaculately white, but the scar on her cheek spoils her perfection like a crack in a mask.Mosca's Animal Motif is the unremarkable, overlooked housefly, and she has pasty skin, black hair and eyes, and wears drab clothes.

After learning about her father's atheism, Mosca begins to appreciate the concept of free will without fully abandoning the Beloved. The Anti-Nihilist: Quillam Mye publicly denounced both the Beloved and the Birdcatcher's Heart of Consequence in his essays, but it was his greatest hope that, without Gods to kneel to, people would be free to think for themselves and take control of their destinies.
