"Depending on how long I'm here though, I'm going to need friends," Magnus reasons. He doesn't want Lucy to get the wrong idea, that this is just him playing with her, that he's only flighty and fun and nothing more. He needs something more in his life just... not what she had just offered.

He doesn't think. His heart hurts so much and for a little while there, it hadn't. He wants that, without strings. Perhaps that's selfish, but that's the way of it.

"Maybe a little more than fun, in that sense."