fully owning how much of a nerd i am when it comes to writing/word usage/narrative structure when i mention that almost all of the asides running throughout CTF ch2 follow the organizational "he does not see/he does not hear/he does not know" within parentheses to emphasize how they're divorced from jace's awareness. HOWEVER, near the end of the final scene, the parentheses are removed(they're no longer asides and instead fully intertwined with jace's pov) which gives us these:
"He sees Aemond grimace. Sees him clench his jaw...He sees Vhagar match her rider"
"He hears Aemond rasp...Jace hears enough to recognize the tone...half-plea, half-order"
and then there's the one that's different from its own set, very intentionally the last lines of the chapter: "Watching. Waiting. For what, he does not know."
the writing structure hinting towards narrative development!! i was fully squealing to myself abt this lol
