[Why is he here? Why is it impossible for him to compel Elias? Why does Elias have the power to appoint the Archivist?
The beating heart of the Magnus Institute.
This isn't fair. He's done what the others have told him to. He's trying to do it. He can't fight Elias. He can't take out his eyes to escape the Eye and Institute. He's too much of a coward to let someone try to take the Eye away from him. And he's drawn toward that eye that fills the room behind Elias. Watching. Watching this and them. Feeding on the Archivist's terror.
Distantly, he connects that this is probably, in part, how Elias feeds himself; he'd always wondered.]
I... [He wants to reach out, to touch the thing that he only ever sees in his nightmares. The Archivist lifts a scarred hand, the mark of the Desolation upon him, and rises from his chair. He can remember what it felt like, to have all the fear of the world shoved into him all at once, tearing open a gaping hole inside of him that he still hasn't been able to fill, even with the Eye more distant in Duplicity.] I could still... I could sue you.
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The beating heart of the Magnus Institute.
This isn't fair. He's done what the others have told him to. He's trying to do it. He can't fight Elias. He can't take out his eyes to escape the Eye and Institute. He's too much of a coward to let someone try to take the Eye away from him. And he's drawn toward that eye that fills the room behind Elias. Watching. Watching this and them. Feeding on the Archivist's terror.
Distantly, he connects that this is probably, in part, how Elias feeds himself; he'd always wondered.]
I... [He wants to reach out, to touch the thing that he only ever sees in his nightmares. The Archivist lifts a scarred hand, the mark of the Desolation upon him, and rises from his chair. He can remember what it felt like, to have all the fear of the world shoved into him all at once, tearing open a gaping hole inside of him that he still hasn't been able to fill, even with the Eye more distant in Duplicity.] I could still... I could sue you.
[For... something.]