The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Upon hearing the story of her parents losing each other, January cries herself to sleep. When she wakes, she begins to piece together the years since their separation. Her father had been looking all these 17 years for a Door back to her mother, never knowing that the Door January opened when she was seven was the one he searched for. She also realizes that someone must have closed Ade’s Door right when Yule and Ade were passing through it.

Jane recounts her own story of how she met January’s father and why she arrived to Locke House to look after January. As a young orphan searching for a better life, Jane discovered a Door leading to a forest world filled with leopard women, and made that world her home. She became a top huntress in the community, and started a family there.

Just as Jane finishes her story, Havemeyer arrives at the cabin dragging a weak, bound, and gagged Samuel. January warns Jane not to let Havemeyer touch her, because he’s some kind of vampire. Havemeyer touches Samuel with his cold hands, and the effect is immediate; Samuel’s strength withers even more. Havemeyer promises not to harm anyone as long as January comes with him.