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    "With respect, your Highness—”
    “Jayce. Please call me Jayce.”
    “...Jayce.” How ridiculous, that even then the single syllable tasted of home. “Respectfully, you cannot want this. I am broken. I assure you, it will be far more trouble than I am worth.”
    Jayce had touched him again, then; those same warm calloused fingers brushed the hair aside from Viktor’s forehead. “I think,” he’d said, “that I will decide for myself what you are worth.”

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    16 Jan 2026

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    Jayce stopped a few respectful feet away from their circle. He held something in his hand. A single, perfect twilight bloom, its petals a deep, velvety purple that seemed to absorb the firelight. It was a rare flower, one that only grew in high, sunny clearings.

    He cleared his throat, the sound a low, nervous rumble. “I... My name is Jayce” he began, his voice slightly hoarse. He extended the flower, a tremble in his large, calloused fingers. “And I would be honored… if you would accept this. And… and my courtship.”

    Viktor’s mind went blank. He opened his mouth to politely, gently, refuse. To let this magnificent bull down easy so he could find a mate worthy of him. But the words wouldn’t come. All he could see was the earnest hope in Jayce’s eyes, the nervous tremble in the hand holding the flower. This was was insane. He didn't want this. He has always been better off on his own.

    But… what if?
    What if, for once, he didn’t overthink it? What if he reached out and took the ridiculous, beautiful offering? What if he allowed himself, just for a little while, to feel the warmth of that gaze, to bask in the impossible notion that someone like Jayce could want someone like him?

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    09 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 76

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    Riz has a mystery on his hands: who keeps leaving notes in his locker and, even more mysteriously, why?

     

    "It's probably a secret admirer," said Gorgug.

     

    "My main theory right now is that it's an assassin of some kind," said Riz.

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    27 Sep 2025

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    Viktor finds himself stranded on the side of the road, dehydrated and inconvenienced, when a benevolent stranger comes to his aid.

    Except he’s not so benevolent and not so much of a stranger.

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    “Thank you… I suppose. For fixing my car.”

    The stranger steps closer, large and looming. Viktor is forced to back up. Suddenly feeling like prey. Unsure of whether this is something he likes or not. Heart slamming hard, once, at the notion that he does, that he’s not recoiling away from it. A thrill coursing through him.

    ’Thank you, I suppose?” Jayce repeats, voice low, threaded with something darker. “I think you owe me more than that.” That wolfish smile plays on his lips. Showing impossibly white teeth, rivaling the sun’s shine.

    The aureate of Viktor’s eyes narrow to a sliver as Jayce prowls another step forward. Viktor takes another step back, cane pressing against the hot pavement. “Compensation? I could perhaps replenish that tank of yours with gas—“

    “I’m not looking for gas money, sweetheart.

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    08 Sep 2025

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    After graduating from the Academy, Viktor is forced to return to Zaun. Without a patron to finance his projects, he lives off his scams for seven years, forging documents to swindle wealthy Piltovian families so he can focus on his research. But one day, Cassandra Kiramman gives him a mission : to travel to Ionia to convince Jayce Talis to return to Piltover. However, here's the catch : contrary to what Cassandra believes, Viktor and Jayce never as much as interacted when they were students. But for the right amount of money and to protect his own secrets, Viktor is willing to take any risk and to play the part... So well that he might even deceive himself in the process.

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    04 Sep 2025