Viktor doesn't pull back from the embrace and just lets it happen, figuring this is just as much for Jayce's benefit as it is his own. The physical contact is grounding, and he finds himself lingering in the moment, even though the two of them are supposed to be heading back to the portal.

"He was lucky, then." That Jayce was so close, and that most of his healing skills involve the respiratory system. Speaking of--he wants to tell Jayce that he's fine, but they both know he isn't. Physically, emotionally. It's all too much, and Viktor is succumbing to his own limits.

"I may have overdone it."