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Magnus Chase ([personal profile] summerdude) wrote2024-11-19 03:03 pm

YOU Get A Big Banana, and YOU Get A Big Banana, and YOU Get A Big Banana! [closed post]

"Okay, just another minute," Magnus says.

It's a hot day out, so holding Galahad's hand is a sweaty affair... and Magnus's current use of his alf seidr isn't making matters any more comfortable. The grass is tickling at Magnus's back -- his shirt has ridden up while he lies, spread-eagle, in the middle of the lawn. Galahad is always so smart about his clothes, Magnus bets he's not getting the grass itches at all.

But he can put all that aside. Grass tickles are good tickles, and the heat of the sun is -- to Magnus -- always more refreshing than it is annoying. There's a trickle of sweat at the side of his neck, but even though it's hot out it's not really a temperature extreme, so as usual he feels regular about it.

All his attention is on the plants around them. Feverfew and milkweed, black-eyed susan and queen anne's lace, aster and boneset and flowering spurge and yarrow and tickseed and teasel and wild thyme and forget-me-nots and poppies and and and -- well. He's not sure what else is in the mix. He's been trying to get better at plant identification with Claudius's guidance, but the package he found earlier that morning only said FIELD SEEDS. He's doing his best! Right now, his 'best' is less focused on identification and more focused on growing them to flower, high enough that some of them are providing shade to both him and Galahad, in a very neat outline of the grass they've politely crushed between the two of them.

Eventually, he's done all he can without overtaxing the plants. "There," he tells Galahad. "Summer snow angels, check."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-12-14 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Galahad thinks of Lan Wangji saying it can be more difficult when someone is lying to himself. Magnus does not always know his own feelings. If Magnus was lying to both of them, then perhaps there was no other possible outcome besides the one that happened in the kitchen. But that doesn't make him feel less anxious about it happening again.
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-12-14 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"You wanted to be okay."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-12-14 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Do you think--" Galahad is quiet again, sorting through words as if they were grains of wheat. "Next time, would you talk to me? About how you're feeling? Instead of trying to make things better just by wanting."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-12-14 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
He's still holding Magnus' hand, and he rubs the slightly ribbed surface of Magnus' nails, which have dirt beneath them. "I want to help. And I want you to be honest with me. It's all right if we are sometimes angry with each other. Claudius and I have made each other angry sometimes. But it's good. I understand him better afterward. I want to always understand you, even if it's just because you told me."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-12-14 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"I will. I'm sorry I didn't tell you."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-12-15 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Quietly, "There were too many things to feel about. Shen Yuan's body, and--" A-o-r-n-i-s, he spells; it still doesn't feel right to speak aloud. "I didn't have room."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-12-15 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
"It takes me a long time to understand how I feel sometimes. And then to find the words."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-12-15 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"No. I wasn't ready to talk about it before now."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-12-15 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Galahad wraps his arms around Magnus. It feels like holding Drosera when she was still a chick and would clamber into his lap in a ball of fluffy down and whine about food; he pets Magnus' hair the way he used to stroke her fur. "Be honest with me."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-12-15 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes. I want that too."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-12-15 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
He tilts his head and then, remembering that Magnus can't see him, asks, "Different?"
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-12-15 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Galahad pauses, and then taps his fingers on Magnus' back. "I have more than one question. Wait for me." And then, tapping one finger: "What do Sam and Amir say will change?" Second finger: "Do you think I have changed since I married?" Third finger: "Do you think Claudius and I are different from you and Alex because we're married?"
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-12-16 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
"One. Would they have spent less time with you once they were married? Three. Before I came here, I would have said we were. I would have believed it was a covenant between us and God that changed us and made us different from other people. But we are married, and our lives have not changed. I think it is a covenant that we have made only to each other. That matters more. What we are to each other is different. I don't think what you and I are to each other has changed."

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