[pal gets another curious look before viktor moves to find a shallower part of the water, stepping in and using his cane to carefully pull the boat back to him. the look he throws to pal is kind of shy again, like he clearly wants the answer to his next question to be yes but he's trying to pretend he is too mature for any of that.]

I can show you again, if you want. [he wants to show off his cool boat so bad, okay. it's so rare he has any kind of audience that isn't rio.

he regards pal for a moment, only a brief one before he decides to answer,] I'm Viktor. I assist the doctor. [he nods to the door, still kind of convinced pal is here for that.] If you're here for him you don't need to lie about it, you know. You just have to wait.