I'm About As Organized As Ran, I Guess? [closed post]

[summerdude]

"And then we realized Frigg was knitting with clouds. Actual factual clouds," Magnus says, passing another box that, as it turns out, holds nothing useful down to Galahad. He climbs up another rung on the little stepladder and starts in on the next shelf. "How many boxes of Legos do we have so far?" He knows it's certainly not enough for a bachelorette party yet, but surely there's something they can go on. He'd kind of tonight that this far after Dark, there would be... more? "Do you think we should find another room to look in? Maybe the game room isn't the best choice."

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[summerdude]

"Yeah! Let's do it." Magnus takes a final look around, smiling. "You pick the next door."

[onthewillowsthere]

With the Carnivorous Plants box tucked under his arm, Galahad goes back to the door of the Lego world and lets them back out into the hall. There are plenty more doors, but one of them is solidly made, braced with iron, like a door from his world. The handle is an iron ring, wrought to look like a snake coiled around a single stem of lily.

He puts out his hand and takes the ring, and pulls. The door creaks open.

Inside there is a single stone pedestal, and on it a long, slim, sword-shaped object covered with a sheet of gauzy with cloth. Galahad lifts the cloth to reveal a leather scabbard with a reinforced bronze mouth, affixed to a sword-belt. The belt is slender, almost daintily made from white hide; the buckle is silver. It looks almost like a girdle, the kind a maiden might give for a favor.

[summerdude]

"Dude," Magnus breathes, crowding into the room. "This all looks very portentous, don't you think?" He leans in to inspect it, careful not to touch it. "Does it fit?"

[onthewillowsthere]

Carefully he takes the scabbard off the pedestal and unfastens the belt. When he buckles it around his waist, it's a perfect fit.

[summerdude]

Magnus, who hates seeing Galahad in a sword belt, gives him a supportive wolf whistle. "Will your sword fit?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"It's in my room. We have to go back first. But it looks right."

[summerdude]

"Let's go see," Magnus says, taking Galahad's hand.

[onthewillowsthere]

The pockets of his hoodie are full of souvenirs from this quest -- the flower, the brownie -- and with his hand in Magnus' he can still feel the summer warmth from the dragonfly room. It's been as good as any journey with Percival. "Okay," he says.

[summerdude]

As they leave, Magnus makes one final mark on the door -- it's empty now, but maybe it'll yield other scabbards in the future if someone needs them. "Let's come back here soon," he says. "I want to explore more."

[onthewillowsthere]

Galahad nods. He's perfectly happy to do that, especially with Magnus. He likes their quests.

[summerdude]

"We could make a list," Magnus says, thoughtfully. "And maybe retry the bad doors until they're good ones."

[onthewillowsthere]

"Which do you think are the bad ones?" Definitely the giant's house and the chasm, but he's curious about Magnus' other opinions.

[summerdude]

"We should make sure the chasm is definitely totally gone," Magnus says. "Um, do you think anyone here would want to keep the BDSM room? Maybe we should at least put a warning sign up? And all the ones that looked like places from my world. The giant's house, Aegir's house, the apartment... and I want to come back and make neither of Alex's parents's places are here before I take him exploring... the mall wasn't actively bad, but it and the room with the brownies both seemed kinda pointless."

[onthewillowsthere]

Right, the BDSM room. And the pointless rooms. Galahad nods.

[summerdude]

"Or maybe we should put an announcement on the Welcome Table instead," Magnus says, thoughtfully. "Shen Yuan made it sound like---" he turns bright red and falls silent.

[onthewillowsthere]

"What?"

[summerdude]

"Um. Just that there are, like, people here who might, like, be really into that kind of thing. He seemed, um, like, pretty certain. Or whatever."

[onthewillowsthere]

"Then we can put a note out."

[summerdude]

"It's Hanguang-jun and Wei Wuxian," Magnus blurts, even though Galahad hadn't asked, because he can't be the only person exploding with this information.

[onthewillowsthere]

Galahad blinks, then laughs, then turns red. "Oh."

[summerdude]

"So you see my problem," Magnus says. "Because I can never ever ever ever ever tell him it's there. But sometimes he looks at the table."

[onthewillowsthere]

"We'll just leave a note," firmly.

[summerdude]

"Great!!!! Great. Great. Very good," Magnus babbles. "Okay. Introduce me to your new sword?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"Upstairs. Come on."

[summerdude]

Magnus squeezes Galahad's hand, and lets him lead the way.