Duressian

I’ll not bore you with details of my bodies and failures through those intervening years. (MAG 160 "The Eye Opens")

It makes me kind of sad we don't get to know about any of Jonah's failed vessels; very on brand for him, of course, especially since statements are meant to be about reliving dread and instead he's mostly gloating throughout his.

How terrifying was it, that first time, having to be so delicate about removing his eyes lest he damage them and sever his connection to the Ceaseless Watcher -- by his own admission he was a frail old man at that point, and he had no medical training.

What did a failure look like? Did he have to puppet a body going into shock and death into ripping its eyes out and putting them back into his discarded vessel? How much did it set him back having to reuse a 'spent' vessel?

(Spoiler warning for the film Weapons by Zach Cregger and The Magnus Protocol Sheeple Chase 6)

In MAG 092 (Nothing Beside Remains), we get the statement of Barnabas. He clarifies that there is no one "whose absence truly pains me," and even says that:

[O]n the road from Aswan, I found myself separated from my fellow travellers. I do not know how it happened, but I spent two hours alone there, under the blazing sun, staring across the vast empty expanses of that ancient country. I revelled in the silence, then, embraced the loneliness like an old friend.

He goes on to explain how being in a world wholly bereft of people, though, is destroying him. That while he enjoys his solitude, he doesn't want to exist completely alone. Not wholly unlike Peter, when we get his statement:

The thing is, the loneliness I crave, that fills my heart with that reassuring unease, relies on distance from other people. But a world without people at all, or at least anything I would recognise as people, it is meaningless. Without the lighted window in the distance, how am I to see myself apart from it? No, such a world would be terribly dull, and scares me in a very different way. (MAG 159 (The Last)