It's not like that unnerving compulsion that Jon exudes sometime, the need to talk to him when he phrases things just right which Tim knows is a part of the Eye and the Knowing that he does, a thing that Tim cannot do despite working in the Archive for years. It isn't even what Tim imagines it to be like, based on how Melanie managed to describe Elias dragging trauma to the surface.
Because it's none of those things. It's just another advancement in the protracted game of chess they've been playing, he and Elias, since Sasha died and Elias knew about it that whole fucking time. Well, Tim is playing chess about it, maybe. Elias is probably playing fucking backgammon.
He watches Elias, and Elias watches him, and Tim has no other pieces to play. He put himself forward to soon, not expecting a threat in the opening gambit.
"Jon and Martin already know, have to assume Sasha does too," Tim says, slowly, "so we're all on the level of what you are here, aren't we? So are you threatening me because I'm not going to hand myself over again? Or because you think you've still got leverage on them?"
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Because it's none of those things. It's just another advancement in the protracted game of chess they've been playing, he and Elias, since Sasha died and Elias knew about it that whole fucking time. Well, Tim is playing chess about it, maybe. Elias is probably playing fucking backgammon.
He watches Elias, and Elias watches him, and Tim has no other pieces to play. He put himself forward to soon, not expecting a threat in the opening gambit.
"Jon and Martin already know, have to assume Sasha does too," Tim says, slowly, "so we're all on the level of what you are here, aren't we? So are you threatening me because I'm not going to hand myself over again? Or because you think you've still got leverage on them?"