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Magnus Chase ([personal profile] summerdude) wrote2024-04-01 07:07 pm

I Lived, Grinch! [open post]

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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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-04-12 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ah--a place out of doors? Then I may have advice at all, for I've never known a chapel so wild." A moment's thought. "Perhaps the sacred stones of the far northlands?1 But those honor neither Christ nor God."

1 Laertes is thinking of Sámi sieidis here.
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-04-13 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
"For most of us," says Laertes, echoing Magnus's laughter with his own. "Come, let me see what thou hast wrought."
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-04-13 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Laertes follows close behind, stuffing his hands into his pockets as he departs the humid warmth of the greenhouse. He's always liked the cold, but the weather in Dark has been rather too cold for his liking. It feels almost malevolent.

Still, watching Dro gallivant across the rocks and snow is a surefire way to lift his spirits. "Thy daughter's grown into a fine little creature."
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-04-13 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
"We'll have to introduce them soon. Szarka's become a very well-behaved young lady; she needs Drosera's mischief to set her upon the right path."
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-04-13 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"He'll be there to be sure her training isn't ruined."
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-04-13 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Does she need more than two eyes upon her?"
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-04-13 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"What mischief has she been up to, of late, besides eating buttons?"
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-04-13 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Laertes clocks that blush; his tone turns teasing. "And how does Alex bear these interruptions?"
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-04-13 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good. There's nothing like thy beloved's laughter, is there?"
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-04-14 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
They're approaching Magnus's campsite now, and Laertes starts to look around for anything vaguely chapel-like.
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-04-16 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Laertes peers around at the clearing with naked awe. His first thought is, this place feels unholy--but that's not true, exactly. It feels holy the way lightning and the deep ocean and eclipses are holy: masterless and sublime, beautiful in a way that has nothing to do with men.

He thinks of Galahad, who has lived his whole life by the wheeling cycle of prayers and fasts and Latin masses, and he thinks of Galahad's gentle blasphemies. Claudius painted like an icon, one hand raised in benediction, a serpent twined about his wrist and a bitten apple like a drop of blood in his other hand.

Galahad will not find the order of his youth here. He will find something more elemental--a faith like a thunderclap that reorders the world in unfamiliar shapes.

"It's perfect," says Laertes, low and reverent.
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-04-17 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
"I do. Whatever faith Galahad will find here--it will be a faith that he can abide."
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-04-17 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
"No," Laertes admits. "But it feels like a place where one might be alone with God."

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