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Magnus Chase ([personal profile] summerdude) wrote2024-02-20 10:57 pm

Me and My Best Friend Put On A Show That Would Make Freya Totally Jealous [closed post]

Magnus wakes up, normal again except for how he's in an unfamiliar room. Not Galahad's old room, either. A nondescript one that, as far as he can tell, just has a bunch of clothes and stuff. Also he's wearing silky pajamas he'd never pick out automatically on his own?

It doesn't take long for him to feel like the walls are closing in on him. It's out of respect for Aornis that he stumbles out of her room through the door (barefoot and in the silky pajamas) and goes outside the normal way. Once outside, he flops into the snow, calling summer and feeling the way the snow steams against his skin as it melts.

He's not feeling totally regular again when he sits bolt upright, remembering that Drosera is probably in Galahad's old room with two people that aren't Magnus or Galahad. Existential crisis over, there's a child to retrieve! And hopefully, he'll run into Galahad in the halls.
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2024-02-22 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
"It was when I went to rescue him from the Sorceress. She handed him over but it was just a... It was one of her minions that she enchanted to look like him."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-02-22 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
"To hurt you?" he asks, even though he can't imagine another reason.
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2024-02-22 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
"I think it was mostly to hurt him. Like showing him to his face that I wouldn't realize. And yes, it was awful."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-02-22 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Tress is such a quiet, kind person that it's easy not to realize that she's suffered -- she doesn't act like a person who's suffered. But that makes him think of the nuns, and how some of them came to the nunnery because they loved God and some of them came because it was a refuge. They didn't say anything about it to him -- it was something he'd catch snatches of when he was being quiet by himself and the nuns were talking to each other -- but some of them had suffered in the world outside too. He watches Tress' face, to see whether he can tell what she thinks of what she's been through, but the features that just yesterday were his are still inscrutable.

I'm sorry, he signs.
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2024-02-22 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
She gives Galahad a little smile and signs a Thank you, before continuing. "Definitely. She started rubbing it in before I'd even left the room. I figured it out pretty quickly and ran back, though."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-02-22 12:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're very brave," quietly.
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2024-02-22 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thank you both. And I'm fine. It was... odd, but I knew it wasn't going to last long." She shrugs. "Not the worst thing that's happened here, anyway." Something occurs to her. "Oh! Galahad?" She reaches a hand up and lightly touches the back of her head. "My hair. How? I could never even imagine doing something this pretty with it."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-02-22 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Tally did it. She asked," not that Tress has the context for why that's so important.
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2024-02-22 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"It does. I normally just brush it and put it in a braid that half of it escapes from anyway. I couldn't even imagine anything like this."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-02-22 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"I think," he says cautiously, because interpreting what other people feel is always a chancy thing, "it would make her happy if you asked her to do it again. Not-- not all the time. But sometimes. I think she was happy when I asked."
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2024-02-22 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
She smiles at that. "Oh, yes. Absolutely bubbly."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-02-22 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, right. He turns to Magnus. "She thinks you don't like her."
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2024-02-22 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Tress blinks in surprise. "Wait. She wanted to cut off her hand?"
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-02-22 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
This is news to Galahad too, and he tilts his head at Magnus.
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2024-02-22 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"There are people who can do magic here. There has to be a better way to get a bracelet off than cutting off a hand."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-02-22 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Does she think you could grow it back afterwards?"

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