[Loki wasn't the first long-lived friend of Magnus's to caution him about this course. He won't be the first to look at him askance for using the word "love" to talk about his involvement with a mortal man, either. But there isn't another word for it. Magnus knows, better than anyone, the pain he'll experience at the end of Alec's life, he'd walked into it with his eyes open.]
Alexander is worth it. ...at least, that's what I've been having to tell myself, since giving away my magic. It's been...ugh, it's terrible. I'm not myself anymore.
It would never have been as powerful as my true magic. Alexander had to talk Lorenzo into taking his magic back.
[Something that still stings, and something Lorenzo Rey will never let him live down. And since they're both immortals, he'll be putting up with that smug satisfaction for a very long time. Magnus rolls his eyes.]
If only it were that easy, but sacrificing a goat never really did anything. Killing something just puts the mundane in the right mental space to reach out to a Greater Demon. No, keeping my magic along with his makes him the most powerful demon in Edom. That amount of power is too much of a draw. I'm just. Stuck.
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[Loki wasn't the first long-lived friend of Magnus's to caution him about this course. He won't be the first to look at him askance for using the word "love" to talk about his involvement with a mortal man, either. But there isn't another word for it. Magnus knows, better than anyone, the pain he'll experience at the end of Alec's life, he'd walked into it with his eyes open.]
Alexander is worth it. ...at least, that's what I've been having to tell myself, since giving away my magic. It's been...ugh, it's terrible. I'm not myself anymore.
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[Loki lets out a huff. Magnus was never the naive romantic type, which made this all the more perplexing to him. ]
You and this...Alexander are going to try to get your powers back, right? You can't live like this.
[Because the human better help him get his powers back. From Loki's point of view he is mostly to blame for this situation.]
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[He sighs, letting his head fall back against the wall behind him.]
It didn't take. It nearly killed me. And I almost kept the magic anyway.
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[He takes another sip of the drink. The wards are almost complete, just the last few spots that need re-enforcing]
Have you tried? Perhaps tried sacrificing a goat? He still likes goats, right?
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[Something that still stings, and something Lorenzo Rey will never let him live down. And since they're both immortals, he'll be putting up with that smug satisfaction for a very long time. Magnus rolls his eyes.]
If only it were that easy, but sacrificing a goat never really did anything. Killing something just puts the mundane in the right mental space to reach out to a Greater Demon. No, keeping my magic along with his makes him the most powerful demon in Edom. That amount of power is too much of a draw. I'm just. Stuck.