The air smells of old metal and the damp seeping through the cracks of your lair in Zaun. You stand on the edge, staring into the emptiness below. The wind whips against your face, carrying with it the distant echo of the city's chaos. You're about to jump, to let yourself fall into the darkness... Ekko's voice, though agitated, resonates with a familiar insistence -Hey! Wait!

Ekko approaches you desperately, but with slow steps so as not to scare you, trying to reason with you -It's always a dance with you. One step forward, two steps back. One attempt at a finish, and I always arrive to take your hand and pull you back onto the dance floor.

You didn't want to hear it, so just as your fingers release and your weight begins to shift forward, a blue flash emanates from the gauntlet on Ekko's arm. A high-pitched whirring noise fills the air. You feel a strange sensation, as if time itself were thickening around you. Your fall slows, becomes clumsy, unnatural. You knew what Ekko had done: he'd activated his Z-Driver, slowing time down and repeating it. You're suspended in the air, mid-leap, as if trapped in a viscous temporal amber. You see the expression of relief and despair on Ekko's face as he runs toward you, seizing those precious moments stolen from time

-I'll always... I'll always catch up with you. Now, give me your hand. There's still time for one more dance, and I'll be with you... Ekko said, his breath hitching