New Plan, Step One: Provide For My Community [open]

[summerdude]

Magnus needs something to change, so when a Mansion calendar helpfully informs him that it's International Falafel Day back on Earth, he goes to the library for some cookbooks, and then to the kitchen.

He lays out ten different falafel recipes. He gathers the ingredients they list, as best as he can understand them. He has canned chickpeas and fresh chickpeas and dried chickpeas and chickpea flour and box mixes of falafel that say 'just add water!'

Cripes.

"I can do this," he says, peering at the assorted recipes intently for a good ten minutes, and then takes the dried chickpeas over to the sink to rinse and soak.

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[summerdude]

"This week," Magnus promises. He twists his head to catch Galahad's eyes directly. "I'm sorry, dude."

[onthewillowsthere]

"It's okay. I love you."

[summerdude]

"I love you too." Magnus curls around Galahad. "You and Alex -- you're both the most important person in the world to me. Any world. Different ways, obviously, but. You're my best friend. You're my brother." He takes a deep breath. "I want to take lessons from Hanguang-jun with you. Calligraphy, and painting, and meditation. And figuring out the plants with you and Claudius. And I want to introduce you to Sunny, you're going to love Sunny. But... I want stuff that's just us, too. I hate that we haven't, like. Made time for each other lately. I want to never do that again, okay? Things are so much better when you're there."

[onthewillowsthere]

"Me too," quietly. "I miss you. It feels weird not to be with you. Bad weird." He begins to pet Magnus' hair again, brushing his fingers through it.

[summerdude]

"So bad weird," Magnus says, emphatically.

[onthewillowsthere]

"Thank you for talking to me."

[summerdude]

"Thank you for pushing."

[onthewillowsthere]

He pets Magnus again. "Do you want to finish the falafel?"

[summerdude]

Magnus stretches, unwinding. "Yeah," he says. "I really, really do."

[onthewillowsthere]

So Galahad sits back on his hands, looking up at the sky for a moment. "Okay. Let's go," he says.