Tension shatters like a pane of glass, and his heart drops into his stomach. He feels like he's going to be sick.

"...Every time we thought we were getting ahead of him, we were moving exactly where he wanted us to be," Jon murmurs. "I got out of the Unknowing, and I still wound up being a piece of another grand plan to cause an apocalypse."

He stares ahead; it's all he can do not to be crushed by the weight of the revelation. He understands, now, why Daisy was so avoidant of laying it out like this. Complications mount rapidly on the back of this revelation - any plans he'd tried to make beyond Marrow Isle come undone in an instant.

How could he ever consider going home, if that meant the end of the world?