"I think that's probably true," Magnus says, pursing his lips. He debates mentioning the ways in which it's not -- would that be too much? -- but he likes talking to Laertes, and has always felt like he can open up to him, since the first time Laertes knew stuff about Valhalla. "Gay marriage has been legal in the city where I lived since I was, like, five, and I'm pretty sure it was legalized across my entire country a few months after I died. And I think there are other legal protections? But it's not all great all the time, especially on a smaller scale, I think. A lot of the kids at the Chase Space -- that's the shelter me and Alex run for homeless kids -- were on the streets because their parents had issues with them being gay, or bi, or trans, or whatever."