Teysa used the gala with characteristic precision. Honouring Kaya and the Agency advertised Orzhov generosity while reminding both guests of the debts Ravnica believed they owed. Every toast presented unity; every conversation showed how unevenly the invasion had been remembered.
Kaya returned to a home that treated her as both saviour and absentee. She had fought on New Phyrexia, yet Ravnicans measured that service against the streets she could not defend. Teysa understood the contradiction and pressed on it because affection never stopped her from keeping accounts.
Zegana was killed during the gala, and Etrata was seized as the apparent assassin. Days later, Kaya found Teysa murdered in her private rooms. The investigation had become more than a public scandal: each new death exposed how little the city's proclaimed recovery had settled. Proft would not treat Etrata's reputation or the apparent simplicity of the evidence as a verdict: the gap in a trained assassin's memory demanded an investigation rather than a convenient confession.