...He was the first person ever to look at me and see something. More than a failing body, more than mere intellect, he saw past what I was and the desperate perfection in my work to make up for my flaws. Even when I woke up in a body of arcane metal, his only reaction was to embrace that inhuman form and be happy I was alive.

All he ever saw was Viktor, in ways I had never truly thought myself worth notice.

So many of you have been...just as kindhearted as him. More than I feel I deserve and more than I understand how to contend with. It is...frightening, to be so overwhelmed by something I thought nearly impossible.