[It's surprising, he thinks, how easily they've fallen into this routine to the point where Kyle has a little room for them in his domain. Viktor knows that it's his memories of the imagined future creeping back into his periphery again and making him feel at ease, but it's strange, how slow and fast it's felt all at once. Now, with the inevitable misuse of his technology dragging him back to reality, he feels as he did in the aftermath of Libertas' destruction. That he was foolish, to think he could simply have this, with nothing else in the way.]
Good. I prefer you with your extremities intact.
[And his face the way it is, and that he's not being tortured, though Viktor does not go so far as to say it. It's not lost on him that he's about to admit he did not tell the whole story, when he first talked to Kyle about the Hexcore, so he isn't sure where to begin. He takes a step closer into Kyle's touch, moving into an embrace even though he doesn't deserve to be comforted in this way--and that Kyle might not want to very shortly, depending on how he takes the news.]
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Good. I prefer you with your extremities intact.
[And his face the way it is, and that he's not being tortured, though Viktor does not go so far as to say it. It's not lost on him that he's about to admit he did not tell the whole story, when he first talked to Kyle about the Hexcore, so he isn't sure where to begin. He takes a step closer into Kyle's touch, moving into an embrace even though he doesn't deserve to be comforted in this way--and that Kyle might not want to very shortly, depending on how he takes the news.]
When are they letting you out of here?