Thinking about how in HtN when Augustine and Mercy talked about Alecto’s eyes being so feral, so deeply unsettling along with the rest of her that they remembered them vividly 9,000+ years later, it was really just… John’s regular eyes. And they used to know those eyes as his, but of course wouldn’t after the resurrection. And in HtN there was a semi-long span of time before the Lyctoral process was created, when they would’ve realized that that’s what causes the eye swapping, before they realized that Alecto’s uncanny, terrifying eyes were Johns in truth