Oh. Oh, dear. He hadn't been expecting that question.
Magnus didn't think he was the wrong person to ask, necessarily. He had loved (and lost) dozens, hundreds even, of times in the past. Some turned out to be mere infatuations and some never got off the ground for various reasons, but he knew love.
The problem was that love was such a tricksy thing that he wasn't sure he had a good answer.
He sighed gently, considering his answer.
"It's different, I think, for every person. But, when I know that I love someone, it just comes to me. They'll do something small and insignificant and I'll feel this rush go through me like... like nothing else. And I know that I don't ever want to be without them. It's the sense that you'd do anything to make them happy. To care for them."
He realized he was speaking a bit of Catarina now as well as Alec.
"They are the most important thing. Their happiness."
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Magnus didn't think he was the wrong person to ask, necessarily. He had loved (and lost) dozens, hundreds even, of times in the past. Some turned out to be mere infatuations and some never got off the ground for various reasons, but he knew love.
The problem was that love was such a tricksy thing that he wasn't sure he had a good answer.
He sighed gently, considering his answer.
"It's different, I think, for every person. But, when I know that I love someone, it just comes to me. They'll do something small and insignificant and I'll feel this rush go through me like... like nothing else. And I know that I don't ever want to be without them. It's the sense that you'd do anything to make them happy. To care for them."
He realized he was speaking a bit of Catarina now as well as Alec.
"They are the most important thing. Their happiness."