Viktor still had that fear, but the fact that he had enough self-awareness that could actually be afraid of something like that did say a lot about how factual that fear really was. Without it being fueled by the anomaly under the Hex Gates, the Hex Core did not have the kind of control over Viktor's mind that it did. Being able to touch his bonded Familiar was helping him cope with that fear if only because that fear seemed to lose strength the longer that he was able to touch K.

"Would I want to mark you as my own, you mean?"

There was a little rill of excitement in the bond. But as with every emotion that did not have to do with K personally, it was short-lived.

"Only if you want me to. I will admit that it would be nice though."