"Does he--" Magnus shakes his head and stares into the middle distance. "Shen Yuan, do you want me to keep, um, ripening you after your spirit is back inside you? And, like, are there any signs that it's going too fast and we should, like, slow down? And do you think she's going to try and attack anyone else?"

This last question is posed with more of a grim tone. Magnus survived. Shen Yuan didn't. Magnus doesn't have a lot of faith that other people could.