He closed the book.
“You should stop,” the reflection said, three seconds after Elias’s lips had closed. “The ninth gate is not a door. It is a mouth.” nine gates of the kingdom of shadows pdf
The shadows coalesced into a shape before him: tall, thin, wearing a coat made of torn manuscript pages. Its face was Elias’s face, but older, emptier. He closed the book
His reflection smiled. Elias had not.
Elias looked down. The book was in his hands again, open to the ninth gate. The instructions were simple: ” the reflection said