One day, even Sunny is going to look older than Magnus. Maybe he should talk to Uncle D about that, too -- about the fact that he's stuck looking like this forever, and all the people he loves are going to continue to age and change. Even Alex can choose to look older, if he wants, even though he usually doesn't. It's not anything he can do anything about, but it is a big difference from Valhalla, where the options were (1) live, unchanging, until you die in Ragnarok, (2) die outside the hotel and fade into Ginnungagap, or (3) get so disconnected from the afterlife that you fade within Valhalla itself. Apart from that and the quests, he'd been outside the stream of time. Here he's stuck in it, a rock that can't be dislodged. He doesn't want to think about the people he loves moving past him in a way he can't emulate, to a place he can't follow.

But that's still years away, hopefully. Shen Yuan came back. Even if Luo Binghe has been hurting people Magnus loves, he probably won't murder anyone and prevent them from accessing another one of the plant bodies. Magnus wouldn't force Valhalla on anyone even if he could... and he certainly wouldn't force Volkswagon on Hanguang-jun of all people. He should stop being sad about things that haven't happened yet. Alex can help with that. She usually does. He doesn't need to put this on Hanguang-jun.

"I love you," he mumbles into the hold.