"Yeah, dude, for sure," Magnus says. "I know what that's like. I trained so hard with my sword the other day that I'm still sore."

Of course, that had been partially in service of trying to reach Alex. And that went... how it went.

"I think I've gotten better since I got here, though," he adds, musingly. Funny how fighting for fun builds skill faster than fighting to postpone the inevitability of your daily death.