Mm. I'm sure. [ Dry as a desert, this tone. She definitely believes in their politeness. And Viktor's, in turn.
Ciri crosses an ankle over her knee, settling into her chair. At his response, her frown deepens. It's not an unexpected answer overall, but-- ]
I thought you destroyed it precisely for that reason.
Do you really think the leftover scraps you hadn't gotten to can be reverse engineered to that extent?
[ Assuming they'd been scraps at all, and he'd gone in order of most to least important. Ciri has little understanding of the actual work and science that goes into it, but she knows this is the outcome Viktor wanted to avoid at the cost of destroying his greatest accomplishment. Surely he wouldn't have only half-done a job that important. ]
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Ciri crosses an ankle over her knee, settling into her chair. At his response, her frown deepens. It's not an unexpected answer overall, but-- ]
I thought you destroyed it precisely for that reason.
Do you really think the leftover scraps you hadn't gotten to can be reverse engineered to that extent?
[ Assuming they'd been scraps at all, and he'd gone in order of most to least important. Ciri has little understanding of the actual work and science that goes into it, but she knows this is the outcome Viktor wanted to avoid at the cost of destroying his greatest accomplishment. Surely he wouldn't have only half-done a job that important. ]