Do not get ahead of yourself, I haven't done anything too significant with it yet. Just as with any other form of technology, extensive study comes before practical application.

[Drinking his coffee was a perfect excuse to cover up how he was internally fumbling for words--Jayce's casual touches were definitely vastly more frequent, and it continued setting off quiet alarm bells in Viktor's head. Not from discomfort, of course--but the variation from what was expected told him something was just flat-out wrong. How long had it really been snce...well, Viktor presumed 'his death' was definitely a safe assumption now. Months? Weeks?]

[For the moment, acting as normal as possible seemed like the best approach. At least until one or both of them figured out how to navigate the situation.]

Besides. I would not have felt quite right starting some major undertaking on my own.