"I've always had an interest in the supernatural," Jon says vaguely. It's easy to tell from the careful way he chooses the words that he's holding something back. Jon's an exceptionally poor liar; For all his prig stiffness he's hopelessly expressive.

The story of what had opened Jon's eyes to the supernatural was one he had told to no-one.

The food is at least a benefit in that Jon can pretend to be very involved in operating the utensils as an excuse not to look at Jean-Claude, though he's keenly aware of being observed himself. "I, um, I started as a researcher at the institute after I graduated University and was promoted to Head Archivist roughly five years after that. That was two years ago and, ah... Well. I acquired my "habit" several months later. Occupational hazard working at the Institute."

Jon had his own suspicions about why he had been chosen as Head Archivist given how quickly the Eye had colonized him, but he didn't want to get into Institute politics. Jean-Claude could draw his own conclusions about the timing. It seemed to Jon that the more one knew about the Eye and its ilk, the more one was likely to get involved, as though the knowledge itself were a contamination. Jon's brow furrows. It hadn't been a problem so far, but if another avatar chose to drop in on him here...