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[lanselos_du_lac]

The day is warm and bright -- it's lovely, in fact -- and so Lancelot is doing his best to ignore the strange tension that has been dogging him over the last few days. He is, of course, keeping to his usual routine, which helps, and now he is in the little clearing where he and Magnus meet for training. He's waiting for Magnus to arrive, checking the straps of Arthur's shield while he waits, and doing his best to clear his head and focus up on what he has determined they need to focus on today.

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[summerdude]

Magnus pulls his sword back while twisting his arm, trying to get it up and under Lancelot's blade in such a way that he'll be able to land a hit on his hip.

[lanselos_du_lac]

He manages to twist away again, though it's a near thing, and then he takes a swing at Magnus -- hoping for Magnus to deflect with his shield.

[summerdude]

Magnus does, dropping to his knees and skidding a few feet along the ground -- months of almost-daily training has flattened the grass and left some considerable dirt patches -- as he raises it up.

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Well done!" It's sincere, bright and almost glad. He draws back. "I am impressed."

[summerdude]

"Really?" Magnus hops to his feet and dusts off his knees, excited. "Like, really?"

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Magnus," he says, with a faint humor, "I do not lie to you. Or anyone."

[summerdude]

"I don't know, maybe you're trying to build my confidence!"

[lanselos_du_lac]

Genuinely perplexed, Lancelot asks, "Who builds confidence by lying?"

[summerdude]

"I don't know, people? My cousin's boyfriend when he was teaching me to fall off a three-story mast into the ocean without dying all the way?"

[lanselos_du_lac]

"That sounds..." Stupid is the word that first comes to mind, but seems belittling of Magnus' experience. So he decides instead to shift to: "Irresponsible."

He moves to go back to the spot he started from, resetting the stance. "Know this," he says, "I will not lie to you. If I praise your work, you have earned it."

[summerdude]

"Oh. Well, thanks."

[lanselos_du_lac]

Lancelot laughs a little, "You seem surprised. Have you not worked hard, these months?"

[summerdude]

"No, I have, I'm just still not used to my, like, fighting being worthy of note or whatever." Proudly, "Alex still wipes the ground with me all the time."

[lanselos_du_lac]

He gives a smile. "Good for Alex. May he continue to outmatch thee."

[summerdude]

"Yeah," says Magnus, blissful about it.

[lanselos_du_lac]

Lancelot's smile both grows and softens -- he will, however, say no more about it to Magnus. "You've nearly become a match for me," he says, thinking it only a mild exaggeration -- he was serious about the Not Lying. "I shall have to consider what to teach you next."

[summerdude]

"Actually," says Magnus, "I was thinking... maybe we could try with me using Jack?" Obviously Lancelot will know that he's been keeping Jack back at camp during their sessions so far due to his extreme blabbermouth.

[lanselos_du_lac]

He raises an eyebrow, but says only, "Of course."

Lancelot does know. It is, however, Magnus' to discuss or elaborate on, if he wishes. And so he simply turns a little aside and checks the buckles on his shield.

[summerdude]

Magnus touches the pendant on his necklace, then pauses. "Can I ask you a question, actually?"

[lanselos_du_lac]

Lancelot deliberately does not look back, just yet. He says again, "Of course."

[summerdude]

"Was it too much to ask? To keep all this a secret?"

[lanselos_du_lac]

It is a great effort not to stop short, but he finishes buckling the shield on in order to give himself a moment to try to understand the question. It does little good. It seems a very simple question, but he cannot imagine why Magnus is asking.

He straightens and says, "Magnus, an it were burdensome, I would not have agreed."

[summerdude]

"I've told everyone important," Magnus promises. Obviously Lancelot knows about Alex; she's been joining them about once a week since he told her. And Sunny, too, sometimes comes, albeit less frequently now that she's adopted. "Galahad and Hanguang-jun and Sagramore. So it doesn't have to be a secret anymore."

[lanselos_du_lac]

At this he does look over, and his surprise is mild but evident. "Ah-- that's well."

[summerdude]

"So you can tell Susan that it's fine now."