The Janitor

"I'm just here to put a bow on things and you two seemed like the best ones to chat with."

The Girl, the Janitor, the Wizard, and the Raven

The Janitor is an unknown quantity; indeed, his very existence is uncertain. To date, he has interacted only with Mitch and Charley, though even then, that was a dream. Mitch later encountered him a second time while tripping on acid at Alligator Mound in Ohio. During that interaction, the Janitor — whom Mitch dubbed “Matt” — led Mitch through a “back stage” area resembling that of a TV sound studio.

To the extent he’s at all real, the Janitor seems to exist at a “higher level” of “meta” reality whose inhabitants consider History A to be some sort of a simulation. He insists his role is confined to simply maintaining and operating “the Machine.”