"Don't get ahead of yourself," he says, carefully placing the sample into a glass dish. He can feel Jayce's enthusiasm--his optimism, and though it's very tempting to buy into it, they both still have to focus. Now that the Hexcore is inactive, he pushes his goggles up his forehead, preferring to offer his unimpeded gaze to Jayce without tinted glass in the way.
He wants to be on the other side of this. Wishes he didn't have to do all of this work just to survive, to the point where even imagining what he wants to do to celebrate overwhelms him. Viktor looks at Jayce, earnestly. The stopwatch still ticks upward on the table beside them.
"We have to make sure that there's no--lasting connection, to the Hexcore." That it will transplant and rejuvenate his dying lungs and that will be it. The whole point of this is so Viktor won't have to rely on anything--medicinal or magical--and he can just live.
But there's another reason, too. They both know what will have to be done with the Hexcore when this is over, so they need to be sure that Viktor won't need it to survive, past the initial procedure. "If it forges some kind of link, then we won't be able to destroy it."
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He wants to be on the other side of this. Wishes he didn't have to do all of this work just to survive, to the point where even imagining what he wants to do to celebrate overwhelms him. Viktor looks at Jayce, earnestly. The stopwatch still ticks upward on the table beside them.
"We have to make sure that there's no--lasting connection, to the Hexcore." That it will transplant and rejuvenate his dying lungs and that will be it. The whole point of this is so Viktor won't have to rely on anything--medicinal or magical--and he can just live.
But there's another reason, too. They both know what will have to be done with the Hexcore when this is over, so they need to be sure that Viktor won't need it to survive, past the initial procedure. "If it forges some kind of link, then we won't be able to destroy it."