( Dirty work, no matter the name. Exterminations weren't pleasant business even when what you were exterminating didn't fight back.
Still, dealing with alternate realities in a real sense like this is still unnerving. He buries that thought deep in his heart, letting himself only focus on the here and now. Yuri is only spared the inevitable hug coming his way because Victor prioritises better than most would believe: then again, take him out of the element of his sport, and he's had to adjust just as much as anyone else. Adjustments that include paying attention to his surroundings and companions, enough so that when Yuri is slowing down, Victor does the same. He doesn't ask what it is Yuri senses; he turns his face to have an eye on Yuri, keeping his own back not so subtly turned toward the smooth face of the wall on this side of the tunnel. )
Yuri.
( He pitches his tone conversational, low but not a murmur; it doesn't carry far. It doesn't need to. )
Have you run into a great number of secondary vent systems in these tunnels, by any chance?
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Still, dealing with alternate realities in a real sense like this is still unnerving. He buries that thought deep in his heart, letting himself only focus on the here and now. Yuri is only spared the inevitable hug coming his way because Victor prioritises better than most would believe: then again, take him out of the element of his sport, and he's had to adjust just as much as anyone else. Adjustments that include paying attention to his surroundings and companions, enough so that when Yuri is slowing down, Victor does the same. He doesn't ask what it is Yuri senses; he turns his face to have an eye on Yuri, keeping his own back not so subtly turned toward the smooth face of the wall on this side of the tunnel. )
Yuri.
( He pitches his tone conversational, low but not a murmur; it doesn't carry far. It doesn't need to. )
Have you run into a great number of secondary vent systems in these tunnels, by any chance?