Good Morrow to our

Jonathan Sims, the first time 1995 came around, was scared and helpless, and never quite managed to regain control of his life until he knew the full weight of knowledge as it rewrote his DNA and all reality around him.Jon, the second time 1995 comes around, is still scared - he always is and always will be - but the pressure of the ocean in his mind finally grants him agency. He’s danced to the rhythm and songs the Spider wished him to dance for years and years, without missing a step; but now he’s spent as a puppet, and if he doesn’t let this book ruin his life again he knows there will be no more threads of sticky web hiding in plain sight in his hair. Now his strings are cut, and Jon has never been much of a dancer anyway.He takes a fortifying breath against the sweet punishment of the cold, swallows the grief that surged with the tears that wouldn’t come, and then he heads home.There, Jon starts to plan. Or: Jon travels back (and away) to his first encounter with the Web.A few days later, Elias finds a child in the Archives.