“I know that what is done by those I cannot see might be felt here – I have found glasses broken and pages torn that were not so the night before.” Barnabas, buddy, is someone trashing your fucking house??? also knowing that he apparently lived close enough to the original Magnus Institute is something. Because he got there to leave a letter. Assuming he walked in the empty streets.

Yes probably there’s a chance the Lonely just dumped him into the institute if he was determined to get there or like.. fast traveled him? but I think it would make him walk all the way down an empty path, hearing the sounds of life moving on without him but seeing no one.