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    When Viktor finally asks why Jayce stayed behind inside the Anomaly with him, Jayce stares at him as though he’s supremely disappointed by the question— as if Viktor has betrayed his own brilliance by asking something so irredeemably stupid. “How could I not? We’re partners.”

    Partners, Jayce calls them. Not for the first time, Viktor wonders: Partners in what?

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    Or: Jayce and Viktor survive the Hexcore, a blizzard, their own bodies, sharing a bed and all the things they’re too afraid to say. Slowly, they put themselves back together— piece by stubborn piece.

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    14 Jan 2025

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    Jayce and Viktor find themselves spat out by the rune and stranded in an unfamiliar wilderness, forced to confront the consequences of their Hextech dream and the scars left behind. As they struggle to survive their new reality, they become entangled in new political machinations that threaten to pull them back into the cycles of ambition and conflict. Will they repeat the mistakes of their past, or will they find the strength to chart a new path forward?

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    14 Jan 2025

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    STATUS: Hiatus

    Jayce and Viktor are hurled out of the anomaly and dropped into the field where it all began. While it seems like the opportunity for a fresh start, Jayce's health rapidly begins to decline. In a desperate bid to save his partner, Viktor makes a series of shocking discoveries about Jayce's body and mental state... leading Viktor to believe that *his* Jayce is not what emerged from the Arcane with him.

    Jayce, struggling with the effects of the Arcane on his mental state, also begins to wonder if he is himself anymore.

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    09 Jan 2025

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    They land in a field of flowers.

    There is a version of the Herald who knows this place. Who has walked a thousand iterations of this field, in a thousand worlds and a thousand lifetimes.

    This Herald, the Herald of the right-here-and-now, knows only that he has found an unexpectedly soft landing.

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    Jayce, in the Crucible.
    Viktor, in the Garden.
    And the Herald, in the worlds between.

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    02 Jan 2025

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    Resigned to fight his brother, Vash muffles their connection by fusing with other plants. But severing a bond so deeply rooted takes two, and Knives refuses to let him go.

    (KV main with side Vashwood)

    It was a single word, maybe two, things he’d said countless times: Yes, Nai; I’m coming, Nai; Wait for me, Nai. It was nothing, an exhale imbued with sound.

    But it tasted like tears on the back of his tongue, an iron crypt in his throat. How could Vash say yes after everything, everyone, that Nai had razed, that Vash had allowed him to? The air for the word was flowing over tombstones.

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    02 May 2023