"I feel that," Magnus says emphatically. He wonders if Gertrude is Claudius's Percival — if she's a friend that Claudius felt more deeply for back home, but who he couldn't be with for some reason. God, or country, or duty, or prophecy, or whatever. He's glad that his friends could find each other here, if they both have someone off limits and/or unrequited back home. It does make him miss Alex more acutely, though — his person loves? likes him back, and obviously Magnus couldn't possibly be interested in anyone else, but he's just as separated from Alex as Galahad and maybe-Claudius are from their people. He offers: "Sometimes my boyfriend Alex skips the nightly thing in the Feast Hall of the Slain to chaperone our valkyrie — Sam and Alex have the same parent — with her betrothed, and it's always a little less fun without him there. More gritty and doom-y, you know." He pauses, thoughtful. "Alex doesn't bother trying to make other people feel welcome though. It's more that when he's there, everything is better. Easier to manage."