[Viktor already knows it was not just a dream, because if he tries he can reach out into that other space. See things that he's sure Kyle cannot. The Hexcore is not physically present, evidenced by Viktor's unchanged physical state, but he can feel the electric hum of the arcane, reaching out to him--he wonders if this isn't the Singularity. The source of all magic in this world.
The part of him that is a scientist knows there will be testing to do. To figure out how much of his abilities still remain.
Kyle seems to understand what Viktor has experienced. It's real and not real, all at the same time. Viktor is still sorting through it, wondering how it can be possible. When this happened to Tony, he imagined it would be the key to bridging the gap between worlds--to sending them home with memories and physical changes intact. Now, it feels like further assurance that apotheosis is awaits them, after all. The similarities between his visions of home and the god he became in the imagined future are certainly not lost on him. Perhaps some things are inevitable, after all.]
The Hexcore. [That seems like a good place to start, even if he already feels shame welling up from the pit of his stomach, to recount the events. Viktor is still struck by how strange all this is--to know that he hasn't really experienced any of it, but to have it feel so real all the same.] My first experiment was a success. So I attempted it again, intending to fully cure myself. But I wasn't careful enough the second time, I--I did not fully replicate what made the initial attempt successful.
[Viktor couldn't have, not with the blockade preventing him from acquiring more shimmer. But he's always suspected this, based on what he learned from Jayce. The one thing that would cause him to halt his research, and accept his inevitable death--because that kind of sacrifice in the name of progress would be unconscionable.]
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The part of him that is a scientist knows there will be testing to do. To figure out how much of his abilities still remain.
Kyle seems to understand what Viktor has experienced. It's real and not real, all at the same time. Viktor is still sorting through it, wondering how it can be possible. When this happened to Tony, he imagined it would be the key to bridging the gap between worlds--to sending them home with memories and physical changes intact. Now, it feels like further assurance that apotheosis is awaits them, after all. The similarities between his visions of home and the god he became in the imagined future are certainly not lost on him. Perhaps some things are inevitable, after all.]
The Hexcore. [That seems like a good place to start, even if he already feels shame welling up from the pit of his stomach, to recount the events. Viktor is still struck by how strange all this is--to know that he hasn't really experienced any of it, but to have it feel so real all the same.] My first experiment was a success. So I attempted it again, intending to fully cure myself. But I wasn't careful enough the second time, I--I did not fully replicate what made the initial attempt successful.
[Viktor couldn't have, not with the blockade preventing him from acquiring more shimmer. But he's always suspected this, based on what he learned from Jayce. The one thing that would cause him to halt his research, and accept his inevitable death--because that kind of sacrifice in the name of progress would be unconscionable.]
It killed someone. My assistant.