[Viktor does not recoil from the touch, finding it comforting enough to lean into it, closing his eyes.]

I could have.

[Isn’t that a nice dream? Viktor isn’t sure how to describe the impulse he felt, the one that led him to the depths of the Fissures, only that he knew where he needed to be. Everything else revealed itself after that.]

If Jayce was going to build weapons for Piltover, then why should I need to wait, to bring Hextech to the Undercity? I wasted so much time placating their bureaucracy only for them to use my work to harm my people. I finally had the means to do something.