"Yeah I'm leaving you in charge of that one." Jayce is not a good liar and let's face it, he'll probably feel guilty about it for Jaskier. That's just the kind of person he is, even if he himself has no attachment to plants. They're nothing compared to Viktor's actual life.

The two of them work together extremely well, always have. And while they built a business and have been successful at it for a long time, this is the first big project they've worked on together. Of the life-changing variety. The next big one will hopefully be for the miners, but that had to be put off until after Viktor's cure. Soon.

"To be fair, ours were straightforward but it took me a long time to figure them out." Jayce only had his memory to pull from in the beginning. It took him some time to find the crystals, to find the explanations for the runes he saw the mage use, to put it all together into a way that made sense. "Start with primary, worry about secondary after." Prioritize what works best. They can easily get off task if they think too much.

"But I always wanted to." Jayce smiles back at him and drops his hand to Viktor's cheek. He leans in to kiss him gently and chastely.