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[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.

[hextechhead]

I do, yeah. I don't have much of a filter. I talk a lot about our work and about you. But that's always been true.

[ Jayce talked about Viktor all the time back home too. It's just that Piltover had this incredible ability to filter out every mention he had of his Undercity partner and focus on the rest of what he was saying. They're the worst. ]

[techmaturgy]

I'm well aware. Your efforts haven't gone unnoticed.

[hextechhead]

You're my best friend and the reason I'm alive. I'll never get tired of talking you up.

[techmaturgy]

You're not telling people that story, are you?

[hextechhead]

No. That's ... embarrassing.

[techmaturgy]

I was going to say "extremely personal".

[hextechhead]

That too.

I'm sorry I didn't try hard enough to make everyone see your value as I did. I should have insisted on it. Although I doubt you'd want your face on a blimp, it should've been offered out of a sign of respect. Everything given to me should have been equally yours. I regret not pushing back harder on prejudice, theirs and mine. I wasn't as good a friend as I thought.

[techmaturgy]

You know that recognition never mattered to me. All I ever wanted to do was bring Hextech to the Undercity, and you've never treated me as anything less than an equal.

[hextechhead]

Listen, if I couldn't advocate strongly enough for my own partner, I wasn't going to advocate strongly enough for the Undercity. I thought when I became a Councilor I would use my power to do all the things we wanted, but I ended up enforcing the us vs. them mindset. I didn't make things better, I made it better for Piltover, and worse for the Undercity.

I'm not saying this because I want you to tell me it's okay or argue my case for me. I heard you when you said I am Piltover, and I was given opportunity that I squandered. This is not self-loathing or self-pity talking, it's awareness. I can't fix what I did there from here, but I hope that being more aware of my flaws will keep me from making the same choices.

And if none of this matters to you, that's okay.

[techmaturgy]

You've been doing some soul-searching, I see.

[hextechhead]

I'm working on it.

I'm sorry I lied to you. It doesn't matter why I did it. I'll do my best to earn your trust again.

[techmaturgy]

Can you meet me in the Horizon later tonight?

[hextechhead]

[ He's startled but cautiously optimistic. ]

Yes, of course. Just message me when you're headed in and I'll be there.