There is so much to sort through there. Lan Wangji makes his best effort at doing so, his eyes on the small and repetitive motions of Danding's mouth as he nibbles at Magnus' hair, his paws up on Lan Wangji's leg.

"Sagramore is wise," he says. "I am not experienced with friendship. But it has been a balm for me, and a gift. I would not think to use it as a tool to coerce a tyrant into better behavior." If that is naive of him, then he can accept his own naivete in this respect. "Galahad asked Luo Binghe for only one thing during their confrontation: an apology to Claudius, who will always be afraid in his own home because of what happened. He could not even give that. What is there to restore?"