for corkscrewed: of all the ridiculous nonsense...

[epistemological]

[ There are many things that Jon has come to expect when he is out and about in the world. One of them, of course, is being kidnapped. He's up to... two, maybe three times at this point? More than once and it's a pattern, as far as he's concerned. Being accosted by supernatural beings, certainly. Nearly killed, of course. Some sort of painful injury or mind-breaking experience, obvious.

The polite tap tap tap on his hotel room door revealing Martin Blackwood of all things?

He... he should not have to deal with this. This was- he-]

Are you insane?