I wasn't--I did not answer impulsively. I take great care never to do anything I don't want to do.

[So, he does want this, on some level, but Viktor is a generally uncompromising person. Perhaps that's what makes this so difficult and perplexing--it's going to involve a great deal of compromise, on his part. Alucard is right that the advice is unsolicited, but it isn't necessarily unwelcome, even if Viktor bristles defensively. Who is to say he can't puzzle out the ritual? Jayce should want him to do it, even, because it will secure a future for the both of them, where neither of them has to make a choice and they can simply have each other.]

It's easy, for Jayce to make this his home. I will have to give up mine. [Or, at the very least, come to terms with the fact that they have this because of this strange circumstance and no other reason, and that one day it may simply end. Viktor doesn't like being told to surrender to cosmic forces and relinquish control--he's had so little of it, his whole life.] What does he have to give up, to have everything he wants?