He was about to say no, of course not, but he remembered the way he'd been guided and manipulated to remain in Mount Massive, from the power cut to being sedated to being taunted with the glow of the exit only to drop down into the sub-basement, all because of Father Martin. All of his apocalyptic imagery, the Gospel of Sand, his God the Walrider...

He'd called Miles his Apostle, his Paul. And a lot of the Biblical apostles became martyrs. Paul included.

"...I might have been intended to be," he said, feeling uneasy.