Claudius clasps Magnus's hand with warm gratitude. "I've nothing but time," he says. "One of the benefits of living here, and not back in my own world with a full social calendar. I understand you had some interest in social studies? My own knowledge is, I admit, rather limited to my own narrow world ... but I served as a royal delegate and diplomat to many of the courts of Europe. I always tried to learn as much as I could about any given place and its practices."