:

i think a flavour of angsty jonelias i enjoy is jon being to elias, what elias wants to be to the eye. elias wants to be the ceaseless watcher’s special little boy. he’s so good and he’s so far from human. he’ll do anything for the eye. and he will take his place as its pupil. but he knows that jon, his archivist, is the true herald. the cumulation of centuries of planning. jon is everything to the eye, so he is everything to elias.