It was delightful. You made many people very happy at a severe cost to yourself. [viktor replies, intensely fond like the gay he is, watching rio's tail thump on the floor and mostly ignoring jr because well. he's blair witching in the corner and that's a thing. it's fine. necromancers.

but pal is talking, and there's a lot about what he's saying that warms viktor. specifically the slow crawl of realizing how fucked the empire is. maybe not slow, he has a feeling pal realizes just fine, but accepting your entire system you were raised with is fucked? is a lot.]

It does. In truth I do not think you should have to be 'God's Reason.' I do not think you should be anything of his at all. [a touch heated there, at the end, before he reaches over to steal pal's free hand, letting his own omni thump on the couch.] Though I am well aware the Sixth is more than what he wanted of it.