"Viktor was here a few months before me so he got started on the workshop. We have a business now, but it's just us. I'm strangely enough the local blacksmith for the Summoned, that's what they call our group."
It's not a surprise that the two managed to immediately get to work, but it is a little different for Jayce to be leaning on his family's work instead of his own. It was a necessity and a way for them to get the money and influence they needed to pivot into Viktor's cure. Jayce has been working in the forge since he was a child and he enjoyed making the pieces of technology the two of them created with Hextech, but he thought he would never be a toolmaker. Never be a Talis in that way, he thought he rose above it.
There may be some lingering emotional struggles he has with it. Like a big step backward for the man who ambitiously changed their city and rose to the highest rank in Piltover. But Jayce doesn't sound miserable about it. It's highly lucrative and pragmatic though. One up side is that they get to make whatever they want, rather than the Council having to sign up on every single project. The freedom they've had is definitely a plus.
They aren't far from the workshop so he opens the door for her. This at least should be very familiar; it's a smaller version of what she's used to from Viktor and Jayce's lab. Blackboards with equations on them, their own separate work stations, tools covering Jayce's. Once the door is shut he lets go of her hand and can breathe.
"It's more than you think. There isn't only magic that brought us here, Cait, we have magic. You have magic." Jayce murmurs an incantation and fire appears in his hand, as easy as if he picked up a hammer. Jayce Talis. Finally a true mage.
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It's not a surprise that the two managed to immediately get to work, but it is a little different for Jayce to be leaning on his family's work instead of his own. It was a necessity and a way for them to get the money and influence they needed to pivot into Viktor's cure. Jayce has been working in the forge since he was a child and he enjoyed making the pieces of technology the two of them created with Hextech, but he thought he would never be a toolmaker. Never be a Talis in that way, he thought he rose above it.
There may be some lingering emotional struggles he has with it. Like a big step backward for the man who ambitiously changed their city and rose to the highest rank in Piltover. But Jayce doesn't sound miserable about it. It's highly lucrative and pragmatic though. One up side is that they get to make whatever they want, rather than the Council having to sign up on every single project. The freedom they've had is definitely a plus.
They aren't far from the workshop so he opens the door for her. This at least should be very familiar; it's a smaller version of what she's used to from Viktor and Jayce's lab. Blackboards with equations on them, their own separate work stations, tools covering Jayce's. Once the door is shut he lets go of her hand and can breathe.
"It's more than you think. There isn't only magic that brought us here, Cait, we have magic. You have magic." Jayce murmurs an incantation and fire appears in his hand, as easy as if he picked up a hammer. Jayce Talis. Finally a true mage.