Jayce knows they can't go back in that too much has happened since, some of it bad recently, but a lot of it good too, all their work together. But for him, it's more about recapturing that part of himself that he feels like he's lost, like Viktor said. He let himself get so far off their path and he can't turn back those choices, but he can stop making the same mistakes. If he can just remember who he was, before the fame and the politics. If he can focus on Viktor and their work and not have so much divided attention.

"I think it would probably be creepy. It'd just be a projection of how you see someone." It can't be the actual person. But it's still interesting. He can be curious about something and still know that it's not the right thing to do. He also is not someone who can talk about ethics. That was more their mentor's thing.

Even as they speak more details seem to ripple through, names on books, colors and notes with more specifics, as he's going from the bones of the creation to more specifics. Jayce knows Viktor's cadence of speech and he raises an eyebrow. "What, do you have a pet?"