#also I am completely bsing the rune stuff

[runes-menagerie]

"It's nothing to be embarrassed about it. I just wanted to clarify since while it did state that the position involved working with Hextech, it wasn't explained what that meant. I simply thought it was because you wanted to keep the details secret until the interviews so you could decide what to tell potential applicants to prevent your work from being copied or stolen." Sky explained quickly, blushing just as much as he was.

She got up to look over the board while listening attentively to his words. She didn't understand all of it since she had only been able to access the limited information they made public before now. She would have some catching up to do still but she was confident that she could learn enough to be useful at least. Already she thought she spotted something.

"This rune.... You gave it a different meaning in these those patterns didn't you?" She asked with a thoughtful frown as she pointed to what she meant. "The first one instance has the same meaning as the notes you made public but this second one.... It feels... off? Wrong? Like it doesn't belong in that pattern."

He nodded along as she spoke when appropriate. Internally, he felt he had already made his mind up. Not really the wisest decision, and Viktor wasn't about to expose it to anyone. But Jayce had trusted who he chose, so...why not someone he already knew? Someone Viktor could trust. Of course he still would interview the others, just in case his mind was changed... But Viktor was a stubborn man, and changing his mind was an incredible feat.

"Hm?" He blinked a couple of times, eyes darting downward slightly as if trying to recall exactly what he had written in the invitations. It was ridiculously late and he was incredibly tired at the same. A terrible oversight... No wonder only two had written back thus far. "Oh- Oh!" It was his turn to be rather bashful. "Well that's incredibly embarrassing. Seems I got a little carried away there, I'm not usually so...uh, anyway-"

Clearing his throat, hoping the heat to his cheeks wasn't as obvious to see then it was to feel as he scrambled for the crutch again, making his way to the chalkboard and spinning it on its axis to reveal what he and Jayce had been working on here and there. It was a jumble of runes, diagrams, paper notes stuck around the edges and elongated mathematical problems.

"Working on Hextech, you need to be as fluid and changeable as the runes themselves. Because of that, it's often a rush to keep up. Jayce and I would need help not just with organising notes but, frankly, keeping us on track. There may be cause to solve the tangents for us so we can all better understand the main problem. This means forming your own equations, formulas, diagrams. Studying the runes and trying to decipher them. Note taking, especially if something is missing. Basically, we'll need fresh eyes - a different perspective. We're learning a new language here, trying to make sense of the senseless. It won't be easy. ...Are you still interested?"