[Semi-Closed Post] the 'how are you's

[lanselos_du_lac]

It's a couple of days before Lancelot is feeling well enough, and before Susan is willing to let him out of her sight. He is still tired -- the incident with Magnus was surprisingly taxing, given the chill and the fever -- and he looks it.

He is dressed in a pair of jeans and a sweater, and he convinces Susan that he's feeling well enough, he needs to check on Magnus. In truth, he still feels on the mend, but giving into the urge to keep sleeping for another day or two would feel wrong.

So he ventures out, first to get coffee and then to seek Magnus. He decides to forego drills today, as he doesn't suppose he has the strength. He isn't entirely sure where to find Magnus, but he heads instinctively for the greenhouse, since that's where he left him. (Lancelot knows he might well find him elsewhere, but this is a good starting point.)

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[lanselos_du_lac]

"No," with some surprise. "We play pinball."

[summerdude]

"Grantaire told me about the pinball," Magnus says, with the subtext being, and not that he's macking on you????, "When I beat his high score the other day."

[onthewillowsthere]

Does Claudius know about pinball? It's time to shut up and gather more information.

[lanselos_du_lac]

Lancelot zeroes in on this. "You beat his high score? When?"

[summerdude]

"Um. Recently? Just the other day." Magnus shakes his head. "It was totally weird. I'm used to playing against Hearth, who's, like, actually good." Compared to Magnus, who is just average.

[lanselos_du_lac]

"I've been practicing for weeks, and still have only come with striking distance."

[summerdude]

"You should learn from a Deaf elf wizard."

[onthewillowsthere]

"Do you have a wager with Grantaire?"

[lanselos_du_lac]

He makes a little face, "Not exactly."

[summerdude]

"You should ask him about jigsaw puzzles."

[onthewillowsthere]

"He likes wagers."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Does he?" Lancelot sounds like he's considering this. "Thank you."

[summerdude]

Magnus has been turning over Lancelot's explanation in his mind ever since he gave it, and now he shakes his head. "I still don't get it," he tells Galahad. "Like, I guess I don't need to get it, but I really don't get it."

[onthewillowsthere]

"What?"

[summerdude]

"Being into more than one person?"

[onthewillowsthere]

Galahad shrugs. "Lan Wangji doesn't," with the clear subtext, so it's fine.

[lanselos_du_lac]

"I think," Lancelot says carefully, "that this is just one more way of being. Just as people have different preferences in any other sense. If you are content, and your partner is content, then that's well. If Susan felt differently than I do on this, we would discuss it and decide how to proceed."

[summerdude]

"I know it's fine," Magnus tells Galahad, "and that it's probably just one of those things. I just wanna be a good ally, I guess." Even to Lancelot. If he must.

Speaking of! He glances at the guy. "What, is Susan, like, your, uh..." what's the word he's heard used before? "Primary?"

[onthewillowsthere]

Every time the conversation turns back to Lancelot Galahad swivels his head around to him with that fixed gaze, in a way that's surely a little disconcerting.

[lanselos_du_lac]

It is, but only a little. Lancelot is glad for the opportunity of a conversation with Galahad -- Magnus is fine, too.

He considers Magnus' question. Of course, Lancelot and Susan have discussed this but the term is new. After a thoughtful pause he says simply, "Yes."

[summerdude]

Huh, okay. Magnus has processed more of Lancelot's explanation and has more questions! "When you say you bound yourself to the -- uh, person back home," he says, very deftly, even though they all know he's talking about the queen, "You mean that in, like, a kinky way, right?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"No," Galahad says immediately. Between Claudius and romance novels, he's somewhat familiar with ropework, and the idea of Lancelot engaging in anything of the kind is unthinkable.

[lanselos_du_lac]

Lancelot's wearing the Magnus is once again not making sense expression.

"What do you mean by kinky?"

[summerdude]

"Like... kinky?" Magnus says. He doesn't know how else to describe it, Lancelot!! He give Galahad a help me out here, buddy look. "Like... bondage?"

[onthewillowsthere]

Since earlier this week they discussed a prank war, Galahad does not feel bad at all about looking back at Magnus with completely innocent bemusement. "Like an oath?" he asks.