The Bird and the Branch
A young stone mage from Shurima encounters an unlikely mentor in the mountains of Ionia. "That power of yours was meant to destroy. You don't want to use it? Fine. Let it sink you like a stone." Those were the last words Taliyah heard from the Noxian captain before she slipped beneath the salty water, words that haunted her still. Four days had passed since that landing on the beach where she had made her escape. At first she ran, and then, when she could no longer hear the breaking bones of th...