[ Despite the lack of a request, something does come down the shute β a clunky, leatherbound book entitled HOW SILCO ESCAPED by A. Carrion. Should Silco choose to read it, the novel lays out quite extensively a series of events in which Silco, through societal climbing and ascension of importance, leverages tools from all walks of Saltburntish life to wage war against the House. He seizes power from adversaries in both the guests and Balfours to become head of the house, eventually finding an interesting centermost point β something the text describes as β¦ a beating heart? Pure exaggeration, surely. In any case, a battle commences. Lives are lost. In the end, he and his own and few others break the bounds of containment and free themselves into the wider world.
Strangely, the book is only a quarter of the way through. How long has he been reading? It seems impossible for him to stop. It seems the best kinds of books are ones that suck you right into them, like youβre really living it out. The book dives into his life post-freedom β a life lived with Jinx and Vander, amends made, a happy family. Eventually thereβs a gun to Silcoβs head, but no, he doesnβt die. Still, death is always chasing Jinx, and eventually it catches up to her. Things go downhill. There are excruciating chapters of his miserable life, empty and alone, spent lamenting his losses. Every glimmer of happiness is crushed to dust by his own hateful fist. After a full day of reading β though it mightβve felt like a lifetime to Silco β he eventually reaches the end, the final page ending on his return back to the last point of true happiness in his life: the doors of Saltburnt. At the door two figures greet him, Vander and Jinx. The end. ]
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Strangely, the book is only a quarter of the way through. How long has he been reading? It seems impossible for him to stop. It seems the best kinds of books are ones that suck you right into them, like youβre really living it out. The book dives into his life post-freedom β a life lived with Jinx and Vander, amends made, a happy family. Eventually thereβs a gun to Silcoβs head, but no, he doesnβt die. Still, death is always chasing Jinx, and eventually it catches up to her. Things go downhill. There are excruciating chapters of his miserable life, empty and alone, spent lamenting his losses. Every glimmer of happiness is crushed to dust by his own hateful fist. After a full day of reading β though it mightβve felt like a lifetime to Silco β he eventually reaches the end, the final page ending on his return back to the last point of true happiness in his life: the doors of Saltburnt. At the door two figures greet him, Vander and Jinx. The end. ]