Lan Wangji follows Claudius' gaze, and he is just as glad that he told Magnus, in such certain terms, not to be a part of this whatsoever. "Valhalla is a facsimile of war. Magnus has died again and again, and killed, but it was reversible there." He speaks of it with distaste regardless. The pain is real, and it is an outsized cruelty to inflict on children or on anyone. "You and I have lived through real wars. The lives I have taken could not be given back."