[He watches her face as he works it out—Viktor has never necessarily thought of Hilda as slow on the uptake, but he does understand that his cure was unconventional, and not something most people could guess at, given the information that circulated in the aftermath. Still, it’s not hard to draw the line from whatever it is that he did to the the Academy officials in his apartment.]
It was going to happen one way or another.
[Hence the destroying, but even then they’d scraped up what they could. At her assertions, he lets out a breathy exhale, something that might be a laugh.]
Jayce said something similar. [That Viktor would make other, better things. It’s just hard to believe it, given the constraints he has to work within, in a place like this.] It’s a kind sentiment. Thank you.
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It was going to happen one way or another.
[Hence the destroying, but even then they’d scraped up what they could. At her assertions, he lets out a breathy exhale, something that might be a laugh.]
Jayce said something similar. [That Viktor would make other, better things. It’s just hard to believe it, given the constraints he has to work within, in a place like this.] It’s a kind sentiment. Thank you.