Jon doesn't bother with an intro spiel — this isn't the Archives and he doesn't have the tape space. Instead he just clicks the recorder on, and she proceeds apace. The recorder he lays on the table. Jon himself puts his chin in his hand and just listens — not quite reverently, but when you're part of a weird cult to a knowledge deity you don't take unique stories lightly.

"I see," he says, and then, nosy motherfucker: "And what's your country like?"

There's just the slightest resonance to his voice, the barest and most unintentional sprinkle of his (extremely opt-in) compulsion abilities. The question isn't urgent, but it does also seem like a digression from the topic of the books, so he's prone to be slightly ... encouraging.