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[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.

[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.