He’d wanted only to help the boy. Long ago, he’d nearly given up hope of seeing a new Janus rise to hold the Door Doom. Then Silas Umber came to Arvale, and Jonas allowed himself to imagine things changing, even that Silas might open the doors to those imprisoned in Arvale by his father, Amos. But almost as soon as he’d arrived, it was over before it truly started. Silas would go the way of the father. A dark road. The boy’s life had begun in shadow and lament, and it would now end the same way. Jonas knew that now as surely as he knew his own name. Jonas could not wait and watch what was coming. He wasn’t strong enough. It would shatter him and then what would be left? Ahead lay terrible mysteries he did not wish to see enacted. Now he only wanted to be gone from Arvale. But the doors were closed to him. No way forward. No way back. Amos Umber had left the ghosts of the house only one choice. Jonas passed through the small door and descended the long stairs into the catacombs below Arvale.
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