[ Watching Dodger idly is also helping, but that also might be because he is envisioning him as someone else, someone being Jayce. They are of a similar build, so there is at least that.

Viktor's sigh is airy, breathy, as he leans back further into the chair. ]

It gives me somewhere to start, variables to work with. So despite our lack of results efforts, you are. I am a hard case, as I have warned you previously. [ Just a touch amused as he says that. ]

The heat...that helped. Perhaps trying again with a higher index could prove useful.