Alejandro doesn't move, doesn't say anything. He and Hephaestion never needed to speak. They always just knew. So maybe Jon will be able to intuit, now, that he's feeling too much to process it neatly. This is not a routine for him - he doesn't have a host of past lives to recall, he doesn't remember his existence throughout all time. It's just then and now and what's now has defined him more than anything.

It's clear as day that being without Hephaestion has done him harm. But no longer having any hope is what did the most damage.

With the utmost care - as though afraid the other man might simply vanish - Alejandro takes his hand. He stares at it, his grip turning almost too firm in his desperation to believe that this isn't a trick. If Jon can see the spiritual connections between people then perhaps he can see how Alejandro has tried to dampen and limit his own over the years, though the only thing he's succeeded in is making it harder for him to recognize the people around him.