[Thattaboy... Jayce can probably hear the smile around Viktor's puff of a sigh. He did it often enough that the sound must be memorized by Jayce by now. Distinct, even if quiet and half drowned by the patterning of shower water,]

I was trying to help your vision, not take out an eye.

[He remembers well, Jayce's worried over their invention holding up. Not backfiring on them or anybody else. Making double and triple certain that Viktor was wearing his safety goggles when he turned the thing on.]

That first cog you flicked through the hexportal... I still have that. Or, I should, I mean... it was in my pocket last I checked. Made it through with me. To this place.