Oh god. Magnus really has to talk to Alex, so he can talk to Galahad and Hanguang-jun, huh. He's gonna do it today. The longer he puts off telling anyone but Sunny about the lessons with Lancelot, the worse it's gonna be. "I think," he says, slowly, "I mean, it's kind of like, you know, childbirth, right?" In reading about how to take care of babies he's also read a lot about pregnancy. This is normal. "You forget about the, like, pain or whatever when you're not having it. Plus," he adds, thinking maybe I should introduce the idea slowly, "I think, maybe, like. It's not fighting that's bad, it's the lack of other options."