(Junior hums and bobs, the voidfish version of a giggle, and darts into Lucretia's room as soon as the door is open. Let's be reasonable: it didn't need help getting back into her room (its tank is in here, after all), but part of the plan was getting Magnus to follow it in here.
When he starts to write in Lucretia's journal, Junior sings, clearly pleased with how all of this has panned out, and pauses to watch hungrily. It descends on the note the moment Magnus rips it out of the book and offers it, snatching it rather impolitely out of the air and chewing the words down line by line as if savouring them.
If Magnus flicks backwards through the rest of the book while the voidfish eats, he'll find a couple of scrawled notes here and there that he might find interesting:
He drank the ichor! I didn't I had a theory that he might come around in the end but I didn't think that it would happen so soon! I wonder if he talked about it to anybody? I can't imagine Magnus keeping something like that to himself if he had somebody he could share it with, even if only for the relief of getting it all out in the open. It's the way he thinks: out loud. I've missed him so much. And now he's back with us at last and he knows and we don't have to keep hiding everything from him and
Underneath a big smiley face, the note concludes:
I'm so happy.
Next, further forwards: I almost had an entire conversation with Taako today without provoking him! this isn't a victory I can't even make a joke about this I have no idea how things with Taako are going. It's impossible to tell. Every time I think we've managed to find a bit of peace I say something or do something or... or don't do something as the case may be and everything falls to pieces in my hands. I wish I knew what to say to him. I wish there was a magic word I could say that would ease everything between us and put it all to rest except that's not how people work and I'm so ridiculous to even entertain such a Fuck it.
Another note that's a little hard not to take notice of: across a double spread going backwards through the journal again is a single sentence in enthusiastic capital letters, bursting out of the middle of the page: SHE LIKES ME!. It's accompanied by several little meandering doodles of flowers; stars; a woman with shoulder-length wavy hair, and a long nose.
Lucretia's journal continues on in much the same way. The more recent entries are more about her daily experiences and her thoughts; the ones towards the start more clinical, about her research and Quarantine itself. If Magnus concludes his little peek by flicking back through the journal to the page before the one he just ripped out, he may also notice a single sentence circled twice at the bottom, scrawled hastily: Ask Lup about Glamoursprings.)
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When he starts to write in Lucretia's journal, Junior sings, clearly pleased with how all of this has panned out, and pauses to watch hungrily. It descends on the note the moment Magnus rips it out of the book and offers it, snatching it rather impolitely out of the air and chewing the words down line by line as if savouring them.
If Magnus flicks backwards through the rest of the book while the voidfish eats, he'll find a couple of scrawled notes here and there that he might find interesting:
He drank the ichor! I didn't
I had a theory that he might come around in the end but I didn't think that it would happen so soon! I wonder if he talked about it to anybody? I can't imagine Magnus keeping something like that to himself if he had somebody he could share it with, even if only for the relief of getting it all out in the open. It's the way he thinks: out loud. I've missed him so much. And now he's back with us at last and he knows and we don't have to keep hiding everything from him and
Underneath a big smiley face, the note concludes:
I'm so happy.
Next, further forwards:
I almost had an entire conversation with Taako today without provoking him! this isn't a victory I can't even make a joke about thisI have no idea how things with Taako are going. It's impossible to tell. Every time I think we've managed to find a bit of peace I say something or do something or... or don't do something as the case may be and everything falls to pieces in my hands. I wish I knew what to say to him.I wish there was a magic word I could say that would ease everything between us and put it all to rest except that's not how people work and I'm so ridiculous to even entertain such aFuck it.Another note that's a little hard not to take notice of: across a double spread going backwards through the journal again is a single sentence in enthusiastic capital letters, bursting out of the middle of the page: SHE LIKES ME!. It's accompanied by several little meandering doodles of flowers; stars; a woman with shoulder-length wavy hair, and a long nose.
Lucretia's journal continues on in much the same way. The more recent entries are more about her daily experiences and her thoughts; the ones towards the start more clinical, about her research and Quarantine itself. If Magnus concludes his little peek by flicking back through the journal to the page before the one he just ripped out, he may also notice a single sentence circled twice at the bottom, scrawled hastily: Ask Lup about Glamoursprings.)