"I agree," Viktor says, though it's far less enthusiastic than it was the first couple of times Skan complained about this, now more half-heartedly placating him than expressing a real opinion. "Though there were many good acts."

He almost asks what Skan thought of their inventions, if he liked them. He'd like to hear that, but his thoughts are mostly elsewhere as he swirls the ice in his glass of vodka. They haven't yet addressed the elephant in the room, which is that Skan possibly just killed a man on Viktor's behalf, and that makes him uneasy. He stares into the middle distance, somewhat grimly.