[ There it is. She takes in a breath, lets it out, feeling...empty. ]
We haven't stopped it yet.
[ But they will. She will. She looks up at him, silently pleading. ]
I won't lie, it hasn't been easy. It's been...so, so hard. But...I have a plan. I'm going to stop it. I promise. You just need to trust me, please.
[ And by now she's fighting back tears, speaking not only to the Magnus in front of her, the one from sixty years in the past who still knows nothing, but to the one who'd barged into her room at exactly the wrong moment, the duck he'd made for her still clutched in one hand as the concern in his expression shifted to alarm and then fuzzy, blank confusion; the Magnus of ten years later, still rushing in, still with the biggest heart she'd ever known, looking at her without a trace of recognition or love.
She doesn't know if she feels younger, looking at him now, or older than she'd ever felt before. ]
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We haven't stopped it yet.
[ But they will. She will. She looks up at him, silently pleading. ]
I won't lie, it hasn't been easy. It's been...so, so hard. But...I have a plan. I'm going to stop it. I promise. You just need to trust me, please.
[ And by now she's fighting back tears, speaking not only to the Magnus in front of her, the one from sixty years in the past who still knows nothing, but to the one who'd barged into her room at exactly the wrong moment, the duck he'd made for her still clutched in one hand as the concern in his expression shifted to alarm and then fuzzy, blank confusion; the Magnus of ten years later, still rushing in, still with the biggest heart she'd ever known, looking at her without a trace of recognition or love.
She doesn't know if she feels younger, looking at him now, or older than she'd ever felt before. ]
Please, Magnus.