Viktor is not someone who flusters easily and Jayce's enthusiasm turns into confusion, unsure why this would throw his friend off so much. He's always been private and typically Jayce would back all the way off just to not push him, but he wants to share more in his life. They live together, share this space together, he is maybe a little too eager to dig into Viktor and claim as much as he can. His desire for more information vies against his instinct to back down before Viktor gets upset.

"Vik," Jayce says after some internal torment, reaching out to grab his elbow and stop them from moving wherever he was leading them. "If you don't want to, you don't have to. It's fine, I can ... make something else." He sounds disappointed because he is, but it's not in him to be happy when Viktor looks defeated. "I was thinking I have to make a forge here anyway for when testing out things, so ... let's do that." Again it's not that hard for him to replicate places and things he knows well.