The Ninth House and the images in the book aren't the same. For one, the clothes and buildings and train all look close to new, not old and molding and falling apart. For two, there's a kid younger than Harrow. The Ninth House lacks the banging capacity for children these days. For three, Gideon's lost track and stops caring.

"We don't really have weather," Gideon explains, "So there's not snow like in the pictures. Some frost and ice on the colder bits. The kind that bites in and never lets go. No trees or any--" She waves above the picture.

"We have more funerals than holidays."