It... is for work. He is a doctor. Keeping myself alive is eh, ah... important part of things. I would say.

[Yeah, a little bit there, Viktor. He doesn't know if the man can help him, but if anybody can... well, the disgraced chemist of the Academy would be the man.]

Jayce will understand. [he says it a bit wry, but he does mean it. Sincerely. He needs to rescue himself from being doomed by the narrative. Jayce will support him in that, no matter the depths he needs to reach down to.]