Thinking about TMA again and how funny it is that being touched by all the entities was just a natural and extremely simple consequence of Jon up and deciding to throw himself down a metaphorical cliffside and smashing into a different avatar on every jagged rock on the way down.
And yet Elias needed to strike a very complex very 4-D chess kind of deal with Peter Lukas to very specifically manufacture a scenario to get Jon touched by The Lonely because, as I imagine it, a Lonely avatar in its natural habitat would never ever willingly get within render distance of Jonathan “It is my goal to bother literally everyone I meet” Archivist.