A sharp tearing pain flared up in his chest. Grimacing Mal put a calloused paw over his heart and massaged it with his palm, hoping the pain would subside. He didn't need this distraction now, he was too busy working. His back logged work order was tremendous. Hex Cores for six people, refurbished quadracycle for an eccentric tinkerer in High Spire, not to mention the golem. Damn thing was taking longer than he expected. It's logic engine was faulty and adhering to an old personality.
 His chest hitched with each breath, damnation did it hurt! His breath came in shallow gasps and his vision began to grey over. Bloody hells, he thought, I'm going to pass out. Nerveless fingers fumble at his bench spilling work tools and components all over the floor in a cascade of odds and ends, all clanking noisily as they settled. He lurched back from his work table and staggered into a shelf full of delicate parts for sale. The whole thing rocked in place, jarring the pieces arrayed just so.Â
 His vision was fast fading and he could no longer feel anything other than the monstrous pain bearing down on his heart like a vice, tightening and increasing in agony with each passing moment. He blinked, vision reduced to a narrow band, funny he didn't remember looking at the ceiling. His head lolled to the side, strength fleeing from him as his oxygen starved brain marveled at his being on the floor.
 Failing sight locks onto a pot of coffee that had been knocked off the table when he had fallen, it's contents spread out in a dark pool slowly creeping toward him. A last thought crosses his mind before darkness takes him, That's going to be a helluva mess to clean up, better get to it before it stains everything...
 Rain pattered against the glass, though the conspicuous lack of Mal standing there with mug in hand would be missed for some time. Not many in Piltover came his way lately. Particularly when it was raining. It would be sometime before somebody found him. But life goes on even when the small gears and cogs break down.
 Junk is easily replaced.







