After Oriana had distributed all the respirators, she saw a toddler gasping for air in pain. Without even thinking about it, Oriana immediately took off her filter mask and put it on the young child, covering her face with only a handkerchief. Within a few days, Oriana fell ill, and even the clean air in her home made it difficult for her to breathe. Her lungs were already corroded, every breath was a torment, and she herself could not escape the fate of destruction.

Seeing his daughter terminally ill, Colin threw all his heart and soul into the greatest project of his life: replacing his daughter's decaying lungs with a mechanically automated replacement. Colin uses state-of-the-art biomechanical filter materials, which are reserved for the highest bidders. After weeks and nights of development, a beautiful mechanical clockwork was born, which Colin placed in Oriana's chest. To prevent Oriana from exposing herself to danger again, Colin fitted a special drive device to her lungs, and only he could tighten the clockwork for Oriana. The artificial mechanical lungs were functioning normally, and soon, Oriana would be able to return to the shop to continue to help.

Unfortunately, Oriana's good fortune didn't last long. After only a few months of healthy life, the withering and atrophy spread to other organs, and her body deteriorated. Together with her father, Orianna worked day and night to develop mechanical clockwork substitutes for various human organs, replacing them with mechanical devices whenever a part of her body failed and withered.

Oriana's normal anatomy has been completely altered, and she begins to doubt her identity. The more time passes, the more gears and bearings there are in her. She still retains most of her memories as a human, but her feelings are strangely distant from her remembered self. Her father also noticed the change, and Oriana sometimes heard him sobbing in the middle of the night. In order to make her happy, her father often took her to the theater to watch the play. But Orianna always got up and left the stage halfway through, saying that she knew everything about the play. Seeing that his daughter's original personality is gradually lost, Colin tries to help Orianna recall her memories and motor habits. Whenever her behavior deviated too far from her previous habits, he reminded her to correct it. Oriana followed his instructions, but grew increasingly disgusted by his interference, because she wanted nothing more than to be herself.

In less than a year, Orianna has completely turned into a mechanical body, and only her heart, miraculously escaped the contamination of poison.

During the time of Oriana's deterioration, Colin's only concern was his daughter, who snubbed many wealthy clients and lost patronage and spending from them. Without financial resources, Oriana and Colin had to sell their property and move to the underground city of Zaun. They set up a shop halfway up the canyon with an alchemy technology lab below, and soon they found a business: reworking breathing equipment to filter the infamous Zaun haze.

Orianna's skill in making mechanical clockwork equipment is more sophisticated than ever, because her hands are no longer tired from delicate manipulation, and her mechanical mind does not need to sleep. She doesn't need any measuring equipment, and can instantly calculate the exact length, width and height dimensions at a glance, completing complex calculations that would have taken hours in a matter of seconds. Oriana also learned to take care of her body, adding lubricating oil, replacing old parts, and repairing stuck clockwork gears. However, when she loses strength, she still needs to rely on her father to tighten the clockwork for her.

The wheels and gears in her never stop running, but Orianna often felt lost, as time seemed to stand still forever at this moment—at least her time. Her father's forehead had a few more wrinkles, and a few strands of silver had crept up his temples, but Oriana's gears were running as usual, and she didn't feel any change herself. She couldn't help but wonder if her life would go on like this forever, and at the same time feel lost about things she would never be able to experience.

Because most of the Zaun people were accustomed to breathing the air polluted by alchemical exhaust fumes, people only occasionally visited Colin's workshops, and their business began to deteriorate. The leak coincided with overnight rain, and since they moved to Zaun, Colin began to experience severe chest pain and had to stay in bed frequently.

One day, Oriana meets a gutter urchin dangling in front of their shop, so she spends the afternoon making a robot doll for him. After winding up, this little wind-up gentleman can caress the brim of his hat and bow in salute. The little boy was overjoyed. Oriana realizes that it is this joy that is lacking in Zaun's life, so she designs many elaborate dolls. In a place where practicality is pure, she makes beautiful crafts that bring smiles to the faces of many Zaun people. Dolls are in short supply, and the fame of Colin's workshop has skyrocketed. Finally, they can afford more expensive materials, even the rare Hextech Crystals.

The trees are very popular, and not all of them are guests. Patrok Grim is a ruthless alchemy baron who hires thugs who make a surprise visit one day and forcibly protect Colin from theft, extortion, and vandalism, but at a cost of protection. Colin rejects them, believing that they should stand up for wrongdoing rather than go against it. But that same night, Colin's shop was ransacked, and all his money was gone. So Orianna spent a month building a tool for the caretaker: a brass orb that could emit waves of energy that inflicted great pain on the target. Colin discovers that the orb automatically assists Orianna in her work, and it seems that there is some kind of invisible connection between them.

Colin's health continued to deteriorate, and Oriana had to buy expensive tonic to ease his pain. She did her best to care for her father on the sickbed, but the last surgeon in Zaun concluded that alchemical exhaust had invaded Colin's bloodstream and poisoned his heart.

While Colin and Orianna are highly technologically advanced in biomechanical clockwork items, they have never been able to devise complex parts that can replace the human heart. Her own life was able to survive thanks to the fact that her heart has always resisted the invasion of disease. However, her heart is also the strongest connection between her past self and her past self, allowing her to stand still in the torrent of time.