[ raphael is well aware of how different the dynamics of those that have come from their shared world could become, and much of it is because eudio offers a freedom that is unobtainable back home. it's not even quite the freedom they have from the waging of wars, though that lack of tension certainly plays it's part. instead, it's more the freedom to exist. the limitations placed on them by their respective societies and clans and families have been temporarily lifted, and in their place there is an overwhelming acceptance, no matter their history, no matter their runes or their teeth or their eyes. there is a chance to examine themselves apart from all of those things.

raphael is still trying to decide if that particular change will leave too much exposed, but that doesn't quite hold relevance here. what's important at this moment is what that freedom has brought magnus.

he shrugs, and if magnus knows him at all, he can probably hear it in his voice when he speaks. ] Well, as long as we're clear on that. [ a brief pause. ] Would you mind showing me that list?

[ that sounds incredibly interesting. ]

It's a shame most people don't seem to notice.