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idk mid-trip back

[techmaturgy]

Good morning.

As requested, this is your daily progress report. The trip is proceeding on schedule, wagon uncomfortable, etc etc. Are you surviving?

[hextechhead]

Ish. For once I didn't get kicked out of work!

[ Because he actually slept. And shaved. And showered. Fair enough. ]

I'm trading books at the library for new ones. Anything subject you want me to pick up for when you're back?

[techmaturgy]

That shouldn't be considered a feat, and yet--

[AND YET]

I think I might like to read something for pleasure.

[hextechhead]

Yeah, yeah.

Like fiction?

[techmaturgy]

More along the lines of a scientific discipline outside of our own. Biology, chemistry. I might even be in the mood for the humanities.

[hextechhead]

The humanities? Who are you????

[techmaturgy]

Don't tell me you've never had the urge to read a philosophical text. Or a history book. Or a play.

[hextechhead]

[ He's laughing. ]

I've read several of them. I like the humanities. I think I have some options in mind. I'll bring you home a few of them.

[techmaturgy]

I'm looking forward to seeing what you choose for me. All of our supplies were with the horses, so I wasn't able to buy anything to entertain myself during the trip.

[hextechhead]

How are you entertaining yourself currently? Does Ciri have any good stories? I bet she has a ton.

[techmaturgy]

Yes, conversation, and I managed to

liberate a notebook. For my purposes.

[hextechhead]

What are you writing?

[techmaturgy]

My memoir.

[jk]

[hextechhead]

Please write a memoir. I'd be the first person to buy it.

[ Maybe he'd finally get into Viktor's head. ]

[techmaturgy]

You just want to read all the things I'm going to say about you!

[hextechhead]

Oh I'm going to be in it?

[ Completely innocent. OBVIOUSLY he wants to read what Viktor would say about him.]

[techmaturgy]

I don't see how I can avoid it, at this point. My entire career has your name on it.

[hextechhead]

Mine too. That’s because we made Hextech together and it’s our whole career. I definitely didn’t have anything before that. Outside of being arrested. I love telling people that’s how we met. They look so surprised.

[techmaturgy]

[There's something unkind to be said here, about how Viktor is sure he'll only be a footnote in Jayce's eventual storied biography, despite all the reassurances, but things are going well. He doesn't need to ruin it for the sake of his own slightly bruised pride.]

Have you been telling people about how we met?

[hextechhead]

Yeah, they've been asking. To be fair, we don't make a lot of sense at first sight, so explanations sometimes have to be had.

[techmaturgy]

That's their problem, not ours. I simply let them wonder.

[hextechhead]

Why? Our story's great.

[techmaturgy]

Yes, entertaining to laugh about, years later. What else have you been telling our new friends?

[hextechhead]

What exactly am I supposed to say when they ask how we met and became partners? What's the problem with sharing how we became a team?

[techmaturgy]

There's no problem. I think fondly of that night. I just know that you have a tendency to over-share.