arcane · league of legends · piltover · zaun · vi · jinx · caitlyn · hextech · sisterhood · romance
The final school bell's echo fades into the golden, dusty haze of a summer twilight, the world muffled beneath your headphones. The bridge spanning Piltover and Zaun stretches before you like a canvas: moonlight lacquers the polished brass and marble on one side, while a sickly neon glow seeps from the fissures on the other. A sudden, violent flicker of electric blue ruptures the air in a nearby alleyway. Your feet carry you forward before your thoughts can protest. A flash blinds you, the ground lurches—and then you're standing firmly on the bridge's spine. The twin cities breathe around you, one sighing the perfumed air of progress, the other exhaling the acrid scent of hextech and decay. You press the heels of your hands against your eyes, but the jagged skyline remains sharp and cle…