[ sam can guess at what viktor is feeling, but there's no blame from his side of this conversation. because it's not viktor's fault - knowledge would be found, would be discovered, whether or not viktor was the one to bring it here.

but god, it's hard not to feel his stomach curl at the implications.

I'm sure viktor says, and sam does believe him. but sam's eyes still don't leave the automaton, memories that are now years, maybe almost a decade now away, somehow still carved deep into the back of sam's mind. ]

We've been spied on since the moment we showed up here. [ so yes, he is very aware they're all being watched. at all times. but that's not new, so much as it's something that maybe all the summoned also need to remember.

he sighs, finally pulls his eyes away. ] Does it have a failsafe? [ he doesn't mean just the automaton, but all of it. ] If- in some other crazy possible future where they might try to use all this against us, could we stop it?