Avoiding the subject. As you are wont to do, Viktor thinks. Skan would rather talk about anything under the sun than admit there was ever a time he was vulnerable.

Skan sits next to him, preens his hair. Viktor sighs, closes his eyes. Skan must feel that his revenge adequately scared Jax off from any retaliation, but Viktor isn't so sure. Skan must be committed to doing something worse if Jax retaliates, which is also unsettling. Nonetheless, he allows himself to be selfishly comforted by the closeness and the oath to protect family.

He leans against the Gryphon's side a little.

"I appreciate your desire to protect and defend me. I do not know where I would be, had you and Gadriel not stuck up for me. Likely hiding away from everyone for weeks." Which, in his condition, would be a very bad idea. "And I admit that I felt substantial relief as I watched you carry him off, knowing he would not be in the audience as I performed, nor around to bother me at the event otherwise. But then I felt incredible guilt for being relieved that a man was about to die, and that I did not try to stop you at any point."