"Even for the dead," Claudius agrees. He hesitates -- that's the difficulty Claudius sometimes has looking at Magnus, at Grantaire and Enjolras. (Though he certainly has an easy way with Grantaire in other respects). Knowing they've died, and while Grantaire and Enjolras have come fresh from death, Magnus had many years in the afterlife. Of course he's still the boy he was at sixteen. That's when his life ended. And for years, he participated in the ritual of dying over and over again, with little room to grow. Valhalla is a place to prepare, to train, but it's also a place of stasis. Everything and everyone in wait for the last of all battles. "Magnus," he says, slowly, testing the truth of it as though he were under a truth spell, "is no longer alive. But I think he has the chance to learn to live on, here."