[ variables change. and in this situation, many are changed from those moments viktor has yet to experience — he isn't changed in irrevocable ways, isn't an amalgamation of metal and magic and flesh made into something other... there are no hextech weapon blueprints on the table, there is nothing except jayce, whose frantic notes viktor had witnessed earlier when waking.
and so, his own reaction is certainly different from what jayce will remember; there is the moment of hesitation, yes, but none of that cold detachment to be found in the way viktor lifts his hand and clutches jayce back, tips his head forward to rest against his shoulder. ]
I'm sorry, [ he says, when he finds his voice again from the overwhelming relief that jayce is here, that, based on his notes he'd seen, he doesn't have to fight this battle against what this place can do alone. ]
I never wanted... to cause you pain. Or worry. And I fear I've done both.
[ because if it had been jayce who had found him, as he suspects it to be... yes, he's certainly done both. ]
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and so, his own reaction is certainly different from what jayce will remember; there is the moment of hesitation, yes, but none of that cold detachment to be found in the way viktor lifts his hand and clutches jayce back, tips his head forward to rest against his shoulder. ]
I'm sorry, [ he says, when he finds his voice again from the overwhelming relief that jayce is here, that, based on his notes he'd seen, he doesn't have to fight this battle against what this place can do alone. ]
I never wanted... to cause you pain. Or worry. And I fear I've done both.
[ because if it had been jayce who had found him, as he suspects it to be... yes, he's certainly done both. ]