Magnus scrutinizes Claudius for a moment longer, then grins and extends a hand to shake. "Then I see we are on the same side here," he says.

(He is, for what it's worth, largely unconcerned with Claudius's apparent age. His good friends Halfborn Gunderson and Mallory Keen are dating, and Halfborn is roughly eleven hundred and fifty years older than Mallory, even though they both look to be in their late teens. Surely Claudius and Galahad haven't beaten that age gap.)

"Do you want to go... somewhere? Into a lounge, or something, or back in the library? Um, that is, if you have time now. We can also do it later."