Jayce pauses before replying because he needs to think through his answer. It even takes a gap of time as he eats, but it's actually an improvement on his past behavior of sometimes impulsively responding or talking without thinking. There are a few changes he's gone through, and one of them involves him being more measured, finding articulation. Especially for Viktor who he always wants to be honest and clear with. It's hard when it's a feeling. A gut instinct. Emotional, not rational.

"When we had our fight, and I proved to you that I was becoming more aware of my own prejudices and bad behavior toward the Undercity, and we talked about how it still was your home. The thing is ...." He hesitates before continuing. "You're not the person who made me see that, she was. What she said to the Council and to me before and after the factory, it ... changed me. Not only in terrible ways."

Jayce has already explained that he didn't see Viktor as an Undercity native because he was always his best friend, his partner. It was easy for him to write him off as 'not like them.' Vi really crashed down a lot of his thought process. Jayce would obviously take back what happened with them, what he did, but he can't. He can only process and take lessons from it, try to be better.

"Caitlyn got her out of jail, claiming I signed off on it, and while she was in there, her sister became Silco's right hand thug. She asked me what I would do if Jinx was here, and she seemed resigned to whatever I'd do about it. I told her that if she wasn't violent, maybe this could be her second chance, like we've had." Jayce rubs a hand across his forehead. "She said there's nothing she'd want more than that. And I believe her."

He sighs and looks at Viktor, shrugging. "It's a feeling, V."