[Jayce moves to look more sidelong at him. Viktor thinks he should remain as he is. Back to the truck, eyes easily up and away, distant and uneffective.
He rolls onto his side, the gesture a mirror to Jayce leaning in towards him. No helping it, it just happens to him. Viktor lays looking to Jayce fully, arching his elbows and laying both his hands close by his own face. One, knuckles down and fingers curled loosely. The other, fingertips sunk down into the soil, as if kneading it for comfort. He gives Jayce a look, a well trod one, a familiar one,
Flippant, his tone is that of "of course not",]
You don't listen to me.
[That same tone says "and you shouldn't", knowing his troublesome and reckless ways back in the lab, he was always the one insisting on the less reserved course of action. Jayce was the more hesitant one, wasn't he? The more measured one, in his own ways, if no less driven by scientific obsession than Viktor...]
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Date: 2025-08-18 01:07 am (UTC)He rolls onto his side, the gesture a mirror to Jayce leaning in towards him. No helping it, it just happens to him. Viktor lays looking to Jayce fully, arching his elbows and laying both his hands close by his own face. One, knuckles down and fingers curled loosely. The other, fingertips sunk down into the soil, as if kneading it for comfort. He gives Jayce a look, a well trod one, a familiar one,
Flippant, his tone is that of "of course not",]
You don't listen to me.
[That same tone says "and you shouldn't", knowing his troublesome and reckless ways back in the lab, he was always the one insisting on the less reserved course of action. Jayce was the more hesitant one, wasn't he? The more measured one, in his own ways, if no less driven by scientific obsession than Viktor...]