[Viktor decides to rip off the bandage in one fell swoop. He thinks for a moment that he might have taken Kyle somewhere to sit, in order to let him down easy, but he's never been one to spare feelings, even if he'd desperately like to, in this situation.
Kyle doesn't sound accusatory, but Viktor knows he doesn't have the whole story. What he does know is that he expected this to happen, one way or another, and now it has. He has to explain himself. Kyle deserves that much.]
We destroyed the Hexcore, after we were finished with it. [That much is not a lie. The rest...Viktor did not necessarily fill in the details. He's reminded again, of the reason why Kyle wanted to get close to him in the first place. This would have been something he'd wanted to know, he thinks.] The government raided my laboratory, while I was in recovery. They took notes. There were precautions, in the design, things that would slow or stop them, should they try to reproduce the device. But clearly it...wasn't enough.
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[Viktor decides to rip off the bandage in one fell swoop. He thinks for a moment that he might have taken Kyle somewhere to sit, in order to let him down easy, but he's never been one to spare feelings, even if he'd desperately like to, in this situation.
Kyle doesn't sound accusatory, but Viktor knows he doesn't have the whole story. What he does know is that he expected this to happen, one way or another, and now it has. He has to explain himself. Kyle deserves that much.]
We destroyed the Hexcore, after we were finished with it. [That much is not a lie. The rest...Viktor did not necessarily fill in the details. He's reminded again, of the reason why Kyle wanted to get close to him in the first place. This would have been something he'd wanted to know, he thinks.] The government raided my laboratory, while I was in recovery. They took notes. There were precautions, in the design, things that would slow or stop them, should they try to reproduce the device. But clearly it...wasn't enough.
[This was inevitable.]