UN: fuckthis

[pawnish]

[Have an extremely exhausted sounding British man with more than a little edge of bitter sarcasm in his tone.]

Well, I suppose I should be grateful that it's not a goddamn tape recorder.

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[pawnish]

[If Jon asked Tim, he'd say that he suspects that Elias could do it with anyone from the archives. There's a reason that none of them could quit when they'd wanted to, why he'd gotten so sick when he was so far away from the Institute, why he'd brought in Melanie, Basira and Daisy. While Tim never would have done anything that Elias wanted (and to be fair to Melanie and Basira, he doesn't think that they would either. If Daisy had become Elias' tame dog in order to save Basira, then Tim suspects that she would do whatever she needed to do in order to keep her former partner safe. Even if it was still up in the air what kind of partners they actually were.)  they both know that the bastard is extremely good at manipulating people, and for as much as Martin had come up with the plan to put Elias in jail, Tim also doesn't doubt in the slightest that Martin would probably do almost anything else to save the man who he's standing here sort of having a drink with. It's a powerful thing, love, even if the person you're in love with is a complete fucking wanker who can Know things and is a servant of the Eye and somehow still doesn't see it. 

For a long moment, he considers what Jon says about the Eye and the other Powers not having an influence here. While Tim isn't sure if he believes him or not right now, he just shrugs and then slams back his drink. When he finally does ask the question, it's simple and basic:] 

Do you still just randomly Know things here, Jon? 

[Yes, you can hear the way that the word is capitalized in his voice.]

[aparticularlyhollowlaugh]

[jon nods slowly. he can guess tim won’t like his answer, but he won’t lie. if nothing else, he owes the other man honesty.]

Yes. But the, erm - the signal, I suppose you could call it, that isn’t as strong. And - and I still need to take statements, or I start feeling weak, or sick - just not as often as I did before. That’s what I mean, why I think they don’t have as much of an influence here. I can tell Beholding isn’t gone, I can still sense it, it’s just … far away.

[so jon thinks - he hopes - tim won’t be subject to the same kind of distance-sickness as when he tried to leave the institute. but just in case ...]

Tim … if you start to feel, erm - unwell, will you tell me? I don’t know if there’s anything I could do to help with it, but there are others on board who might, I don’t know, erm - devise some kind of magical ward against it, perhaps.

[pawnish]

[From where Tim is from, he doesn't know about how Jon can take statements in the wild from people. He doesn't know about how Jon had fed off of random people. He knows what Elias can do, certainly, because he remembers Melanie and Martin and how fucked up they got, though. It's not the entire picture--something that is the norm for Tim more than anything else since he'd started working in the archives.--but it does give him enough of one to begin to pieces together.]

So, we could still get sick from being away like how I did when I tried to run?

[There's anger in the words certainly, because there can't not be, but this time they're not pointed in Jon's direction. This wasn't his fault and Tim knows it. No, the blame of it entirely belongs to elias' bitch ass and he knows that if he ever got the chance he'd kill the monster so that they could be free. All he fucking wants is vengeance and to be free and right now it looks like he'd only gotten it about half right rather than anything else.

Remembering the way that he'd ended up getting so fucking sick in Malaysia that he practically needed to come crawling back, not only to London but to the Institute itself, tim's scowl is so deep he doesn't know if he's ever going to be able to keep it off when it comes to this fucking place.]

So Navi can't stop whatever Elias and the Eye did? I might end up getting sicker and sicker and weaker and there's not a thing that Navi can do about it? Well, isn't that just fucking perfect. Should have known there'd be a catch beyond just the fucking tape recorders and you being here.

[aparticularlyhollowlaugh]

[jon expects tim’s anger, he’s prepared for it, but that doesn’t make hearing it any easier. with a rueful frown, he shrugs and shakes his head.]

I don’t know, Tim. I’m only guessing, based on what I’ve experienced, but I don’t know for certain - or Know, for that matter. Navi can feel what we feel, but they can’t lessen the pain. They’re mentally linked with all of us but that’s the extent of their supernatural powers, if - if you can even call it that.

[well … maybe also the death revival, but that seems based in science, and both murmur and persephone had a hand in that as well.]

There are other people on the ship who have skills in varying types of magic - which I know sounds ridiculous, but it’s not. It’s real. I’ve seen it. And I - I don’t know if any of them can do anything about, erm - breaking the Eye’s hold on you, but perhaps something could be done to - I don’t know, shield you from it?