[ Viktor opens his mouth to give voice to half a dozen questions, and then closes it again, sighing thinly. ]
Perhaps it would be best if you did not tell me some details. I do not need to know exactly what he did to himself: only that it led to something so bad that it resulted in your mission across timelines. If I did know, and his method was initially safer or better, I might... be prone to obsessing over how to make it work without the terrible end result.
[ Because Viktor is nothing if not honest with himself, and he knows he is prone to lingering on things he should probably leave alone.
He hesitates, and puts his mug down. He should let Jayce get dressed, and they should get to work -- the sooner they figure this out, the sooner Jayce can get back to his own timeline -- but there is one question that's been eating a hole in him. ]
The only thing I'd like to know is-- how bad did it get, exactly?
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Perhaps it would be best if you did not tell me some details. I do not need to know exactly what he did to himself: only that it led to something so bad that it resulted in your mission across timelines. If I did know, and his method was initially safer or better, I might... be prone to obsessing over how to make it work without the terrible end result.
[ Because Viktor is nothing if not honest with himself, and he knows he is prone to lingering on things he should probably leave alone.
He hesitates, and puts his mug down. He should let Jayce get dressed, and they should get to work -- the sooner they figure this out, the sooner Jayce can get back to his own timeline -- but there is one question that's been eating a hole in him. ]
The only thing I'd like to know is-- how bad did it get, exactly?