"Jayce was here?" Pause. "What'd he say?"

"Quote, 'Tell Jinx that it probably wasn't a good idea to hide out in the place where Vic met her', unquote. The rest is politics. Did you know Vic's father sponsors Heimerdinger's research?" 

"I thought you didn't discuss your clients."

"Vic's not my client anymore."

"Point taken."

"Sponsors whose research?"

"Heimerdinger. Living-national-treasure Heimerdinger. Genius-in-our-time Heimerdinger. Inventor-of-modern-Hextech Heimerdinger. That Heimerdinger."

"Also small-fuzzy-yordle Heimerdinger and can't-tie-his-own-shoes Heimerdinger." 

"Well that's a description."

"By all accounts he's fairly decent, but he tends not to ask many questions about where his funding comes from. I'm pretty sure it's more out of scatterbrainedness than from malice. ...Then again, Heimerdinger."

"So the upshot is what, Vic talked his way out of custody?

"It sounds like the Piltover police department's got a bit of a dilemma. They know you're here, they know you're the bomber, and Vic's father wants you arrested for dishonouring his son. However, Jayce is arguing for you, and their major lead is the word of your ex who admits he met you in a whorehouse. Not only that, they don't want to kick the hornet's nest by being seen to investigate my business."

"Is your business particularly full of hornets?"

"My clients value discretion."

"Aha."

"Still, we should maybe make a plan. Unless you two are fine with staying here for the rest of your lives."

"As much fun as that would be..."

"Yeah, no, I'd go crazy."

"All right, so plans."

"Well, I'd assume the building is being fairly closely watched..."

"Cait's probably going to be running a better perimeter this time. Sneaking would be hard, fighting would be stupid. Any bright ideas, Ruava?"

"How hard is hard?"

Jinx hums softly. 

"... My third-hand impression of Cait is that she's only a little worse at noticing things than you."

"...So pretty hard. All right."

She thinks.

"My instinct in this kind of situation is to apply charm but I'm not sure I know the local context well enough yet."

"And apparently you have an in with Jayce already, so..."