“The surface was uneven”

when a surface is uneven that usually parallels to something that is unfinished, or needs sorting out, for example the feeling of guilt, when you feel guilty your “uneven” conscious would encourage you to do the right thing and even your conscious out, so therefore, this quote portraits Victors guilt

“Sea of ice”

the sea of ice, portraits that all Victor sees is endless fields of ice, it displays that all that Victor sees is frozen and still, everywhere he sees, all he sees is guilt, in addition ice is cold, and cold usually infers a frozen concious which usually means that Victor is in guilt, not only a puddle of guilt, not a lake of guilt, a sea of guilt