[What can he do? What the hell can he do? Jon's eyes drop to the contract, then flit over Elias' desk. There's a letter opener, and for one wild moment, he thinks to take a leaf out of Melanie's book and try to just stab the problem. It's a wild fantasy because Ginger's face flashed up a moment later. Agnes might be all right. She had the Desolation to protect her. But Elias has bound himself to an innocent woman here. Is her death worth it? The potential deaths of every Institute employee a world away?

But they're practically already dead, aren't they? The sky is filled with eyes and he has known their terror and agony and the ecstasy of that terrible knowledge. Too much for one body, one Archive.]

If I'd known what was in it, I wouldn't have agreed.

[Jon's chest rises and falls rapidly. What should he do? This is exactly the sort of scenario he's been trying to avoid since this bastard appeared in Duplicity.]

I-I can still- I could break the contract anyway. I could break it and you'd have to sue me.

[Court cases are supposed to take ages, aren't they?]