"It takes a few conversations to get to know him," Magnus says. Why is he harping on this? Tally clearly doesn't want to talk about it. "I thought he was a god at first. And Shen Yuan's dad. I yelled at him for being another neglectful godly parent. And then we got close." He pauses, then makes another face. "Oh, right. The secret is that me and Galahad cut off my toe so I could see if I could fix it. It was actually pretty easy?" In retrospect, he's extra-glad he did it -- he wasn't totally unused to pain when that sword got him.