Sneaking into Heimerdinger’s lab was a success… though you weren’t feeling all excited as before. Jayce had completely got Mel’s attention but you wanted her attention too. Viktor wanted Jayce’s.

In the lab, you began to work quietly as you hummed or shook your head at their words, Viktor speaking verbally for you at some point if Jayce asked you a question. Looking at the ruins and the Hextech, you cranked the gears. Viktor and Jayce were about to warn you but you pushed it. “I got it!” you argued finally.

With enforcers banging at the door, you cranked it up again. “Ah — no pressure,” Viktor says to you and Jayce and Jayce looks at him. “This seems like pressure!” he shouts. With one last crank, the crystal blows and the door is wide open. With shut eyes, you carefully open them and look around you. “Wow,” you whisper. As Heimerdinger rants on, you’re too busy floating and looking at your guys’ work. You guys did amazing.

“That’s for the council to decide,” a female’s voice breaks through the commotion. Mel. You look down and… oh God. As she rants on, you can feel yourself get closer and closer until you fall. In front of her. “The era of magic,” Mel finishes her sentence, looking down at you. “Hextech,” you correct, struggling to stand. You stand in front of her and she smiles confidently at your sheepishness.

“Hextech,” Mel repeats.