[She demands an explanation from Jayce, and why shouldn't she? He wasn't privy to any pre-battle discussions, but he imagines that it was made clear to all involved that Viktor was dangerous and needed to be stopped. To see Jayce here, now, at his side with a hand protectively at his arm must be shocking.

But this is not Jayce's defense to give, even if Viktor isn't entirely sure how to explain himself. He understands, now, that he was not in his right mind, but to blame everything on the Hexcore's influence feels disingenuous. The last thing he wants, faced with someone he directly harmed, is to shirk responsibility. They were his own desires, in the end, even if they were twisted beyond recognition.]

I was deluded. I thought--

[All he'd ever wanted was to take pain away--to make sure no one would need to suffer the way he did. Given the power to do so, why wouldn't he act on it? Betrayed by Jayce and wandering his own mind, he'd forgotten what it was to exist in the real world.]

--I believed that I could save all of us from ourselves. I thought I had found the way to do it.

[All he'd seen was the beauty of his evolution--the promise of an end to suffering. It had been poisoned from the start.]

Jayce showed me what that really meant. He ended it.