Despite the fact that he knows this is entirely inevitable, he manages to look flustered anyway, suddenly losing his composure and tripping over his own words.
"No, no, not a--a pet, exactly." But, of course, that makes it sound even worse, because there's no good way to talk about how he was childhood best friends with a giant pink salamander creature that is now kept in suspended animation and also is possibly being used to produce everyone's favorite mutagenic drug. It's too much to get into, all at once--perhaps he hoped that he'd have more time to sort things out, prepare what he wants to say or how he wants to talk about this, but of course he isn't that lucky. Jayce is going to have questions, and Viktor want to be honest with him. He just isn't quite sure how.
It takes him a second, but he does realize a potential solution, one that doesn't involve dragging them both down to the very bottom of his domain, into a place he'd rather not remember. Viktor looks momentarily defeated, before he voices his compromise.
"Okay," he starts, clearly choosing his words carefully and motioning for Jayce to follow him back out into the hallway. They can go to his study--Viktor is already rearranging the spaces he's created to fit alongside the spaces Jayce is making in turn. It's simply what makes sense. "You can meet her, but you should know that the Horizon has a way of taking your subconscious thoughts and using them to fill in the blanks. That's how--I'm not sure I brought her here on purpose."
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"No, no, not a--a pet, exactly." But, of course, that makes it sound even worse, because there's no good way to talk about how he was childhood best friends with a giant pink salamander creature that is now kept in suspended animation and also is possibly being used to produce everyone's favorite mutagenic drug. It's too much to get into, all at once--perhaps he hoped that he'd have more time to sort things out, prepare what he wants to say or how he wants to talk about this, but of course he isn't that lucky. Jayce is going to have questions, and Viktor want to be honest with him. He just isn't quite sure how.
It takes him a second, but he does realize a potential solution, one that doesn't involve dragging them both down to the very bottom of his domain, into a place he'd rather not remember. Viktor looks momentarily defeated, before he voices his compromise.
"Okay," he starts, clearly choosing his words carefully and motioning for Jayce to follow him back out into the hallway. They can go to his study--Viktor is already rearranging the spaces he's created to fit alongside the spaces Jayce is making in turn. It's simply what makes sense. "You can meet her, but you should know that the Horizon has a way of taking your subconscious thoughts and using them to fill in the blanks. That's how--I'm not sure I brought her here on purpose."