I Lived, Grinch! [open post]

[summerdude]

The first thing Magnus does -- with Alex's help -- after fully healing is board up the hole in the side of the greenhouse where the cheetah ran through. The second thing, once he learns the full scope of Dark (it's different at camp; he'd already taken out a ton of camp-appropriate food for when Galahad and Laertes couldn't make it out there, and so he and Alex have been fine on the eating front) is go to the greenhouse again to figure out what plants in there yield edible produce. (Also, he tries to scrub his blood off the table. It... partially works?)

Partly it's that he's still feeling weird after the whole affair. The season doesn't help, but he does feel closer to his own mortality than pretty much any point since he died for real the first time. Being around growing plants helps that. Mostly, though, it's because he doesn't want anyone to get, like, scurvy living on bushels of rice alone.

He doesn't want to overtax any of the plants, but some can be cajoled into fruiting. Right now, he's got his hand on a kumquat tree, and he's trying to convince it that it can speed up the growth process by a few weeks. Drosera is with him, 'helping:' she's found a dead leaf, and she's chasing it down the pathway between some plants. If anyone shows up -- either because they've heard of his near-death experience and want to check in on him, or just to hang out, or even because they're drawn by the way it looks like sunlight is coming from the greenhouse itself -- he'll be glad for the company.

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[sagramore]

"Thou hadst manhood thrust on thee, and now thou hast the chance for boyhood. That's well -- thou shouldst taste that savor if thou canst now."

[summerdude]

"Your husband said the same thing." Basically. Different context. Mostly he'd just said Magnus shouldn't necessarily force himself to pick an age. Same difference?

[sagramore]

"My husband is a very wise man."

[summerdude]

Magnus grins at him, and then raises his eyebrows. "Wait, were you the secret prince you were talking about?"

[sagramore]

"Yes, exactly."

[summerdude]

"So you want me to ask you to knight me?"

[sagramore]

"Not really. Thou'rt fine as thou art."

[summerdude]

"I already have a, like, bespoke shield anyway."

[sagramore]

"Now, by rights, thou shouldst stand vigil overnight in a chapel--"

[summerdude]

"Yeah, I think that my father, who art in Alfheim, might have an opinion about that one."

[sagramore]

"That's true, thou art already a sort of god, or adjacent to one. We can probably count that."

[summerdude]

Magnus laughs. "Don't go telling any actual gods that you think of demigods as being particularly adjacent. They tend to get really offended by that kinda thing."

[sagramore]

"I only know the one. It should be fine."

[summerdude]

"He wouldn't be offended," Magnus allows. Hadn't Dionysus claimed to be a demigod, too? "I meant the ones from my pantheon."

[sagramore]

"I don't expect to meet them, but if I do, I'll keep my mouth shut."

[summerdude]

Magnus squints at Sagramore for a moment, then nods. "German sausage is the wurst," he tells him.

[sagramore]

"Oh, Laertes would have gotten that one, he knows German. Try me again." He is obviously delighted with this pun in spite of not understanding it, for the record.

[summerdude]

"Jack often has a point."

[sagramore]

"I got that one!"

[summerdude]

"I tried to come up with a pun about the wind, but it blows."

[sagramore]

"This feels like filling my pockets with treasure."

[summerdude]

"I don't trust stairs."

[sagramore]

"What?"

[summerdude]

Magnus give Sagramore a mournful look. "They're always up to something."

[sagramore]

"All right, now we are blood brothers."