"I think he, like. Feels bad about what he did," Magnus says. He hadn't said that to Claudius; he figures it's only worth anything to him if it comes straight from the source. "He wants you guys to ignore him when we're all in there. No, like, looking at him or talking about him. And he said that, as a gesture of good faith or whatever... he doesn't know how, but the plant we're growing is, um. Intolerant to demonic qi? Or something? And so there's probably a way Claudius can use it so that he's, like. Untouchable by Luo Binghe's powers."