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No. No, no, no–!
This wasn’t supposed to happen!!! Elias had planned everything, his ritual had been on the making since the moment Jonathan got the position, all that happened since he became the archivist was a series of events to create his archive of fear.
He made the ritual and it worked!! He saw it happen, Jon read the statement, he couldn’t help himself, that had been a relief, that had been the last thing he needed for it. Jonah had to call in favors, had to play weak, had to be in jail for months on end…
Yet!
What he did not count on was that the eye wouldn’t count his efforts, that it wouldn’t choose the panopticon as the heart of its power. Oh no, no, no, no. What it did instead was create its own tower far away in the distance that was made by the eye to keep its archive safe. It was further than anyone should be able to see, a tower of babel made real.
A tower, specifically build in the fucking scottish highlands where Jonathan Simm’s now resides as the eye. The world changes that is true, but it doesn’t do it in the way Jonah had wanted.

Elias adventures as the not special boy of the eye and his roadtrip through the apocalypse with a very digruntled sailor who may have come back from the death.