[Well, this has his attention. His expression almost softens, until she starts going on about traps...and grenades, and bombs, and guns. Viktor isn't going to presume the situation she's in, wherever she's from, but it leaves a bad taste in his mouth that someone this young is using her apparent talents for making weapons.
It wasn't like he planned to be terribly forthcoming anyway, but he seems a little more guarded, given this new information.]
I've been known to dabble.
[This is, obviously, an understatement--but until he has a better idea of what he's dealing with, he's going to undersell himself (does he need to undersell himself to a teenaged girl? Apparently). Runes gets his attention, though by now he's gathered that people are pulled here from all sorts of different places. It isn't out of the question that other worlds or planes of existence or whatever have their own runic systems.
And despite all the sudden talk about Things That are Probably Used to Kill People, he can recognize her disappointment, and he feels a pang of sympathy, in spite of himself.]
I was in the middle of something, too. [A breakthrough of his own.] So, I understand.
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It wasn't like he planned to be terribly forthcoming anyway, but he seems a little more guarded, given this new information.]
I've been known to dabble.
[This is, obviously, an understatement--but until he has a better idea of what he's dealing with, he's going to undersell himself (does he need to undersell himself to a teenaged girl? Apparently). Runes gets his attention, though by now he's gathered that people are pulled here from all sorts of different places. It isn't out of the question that other worlds or planes of existence or whatever have their own runic systems.
And despite all the sudden talk about Things That are Probably Used to Kill People, he can recognize her disappointment, and he feels a pang of sympathy, in spite of himself.]
I was in the middle of something, too. [A breakthrough of his own.] So, I understand.