Can you imagine Elias carving runes into Jon or speaking from a Leitner book? Can you imagine magic chains snapping around Jon’s neck and his body? Can you imagine Jon sitting, trapped in his chair, just like when he was captured by The Circus, watching Elias circle him with…bloodlust? Pride? Glee?
Wondering what the hell Elias is going to inflict upon him now.
Yes! Very good thoughts all of these.
Jon agreeing because he’s just so curious and he needs to know what going to happen. Only to regret it immediately, not that he wants to stop he still needs to know what will happen. Elias being very clear to get Jon’s cooperation beforehand, and reiterating he can’t go back, but Jon is just so hungry to know.
Elias finishing the last cut or word and suddenly he can’t move, he’s pinned stuck, held in place by chains that look delicate but hold him tightly. Jon struggling at first, before giving up, waiting for Elias to unchain him, because surely that’s it? Only Elias isn’t doing anything but watching him squirm, his expression impossible to read, but Jon feels like prey.
Jon so scared, his mind going to the last time he was chained. Plastic hands roaming all over him, touching and pressing and running no matter how he struggled, Isn’t this a bit better? It’s not the Stranger, it’s Elias. Elias wouldn’t kill him surely, wouldn’t take things that far. Jon not admitting the hunger to know what Elias will do growing as he trembles.
And oh the supplemental yes big scary monster Jon reduced to whimpering puppy on a leash. He doesn’t even pull against it anymore, he knows it doesn’t do any good. It shouldn’t hold him, he’s powerful, all sharp teeth and claws, but he lets himself be lead about, because isn’t it better? He doesn’t have to make decisions, all of his seems to end badly anyway. He can just exist, and go where he’s lead.
Very very good thoughts all around rotating them in my brain.
