With a shake of his head, he turns back to the fire. "No."

Having needed no time at all to consider that answer, he instead takes the moment after it to think. The friction between them is too complex to lay definitive blame. Though being here has often felt to him like some kind of afterlife, when it comes down to it, Viktor only knows what it's like to be dying—not to die. What does that do to a person? No, overstepped isn't quite right...

"But you should make some other friends."

Even as the sole representative of home, he can't give Jayce everything he needs—not that he ever thought he could, but it's never been more clear to him than now. And without their work to bind them together, maybe... maybe they simply aren't compatible. Maybe bringing him back wasn't enough. Maybe nothing would be.

"Live, like you said. Rediscover who you are."