All good things begin and end

"Your tease," he reminded her against her cheek, his voice deep as he smirked. While he may be an old man on the outside (and the inside if you think about it), his mentals were still mostly about him. He certainly hadn't lost his dirty mind with all the other things he'd lost over the years, anyway.

There were a lot of things he was nervous about. Nervous probably wasn't even the right word to describe it, but Magnus wasn't good with words really. While for Kiyo it was as simple as returning home, even if it was a home she'd never lived in before. It was still her family, just settled somewhere new, and while he was happy for Kiyo and wanted what she wanted, it was something completely new for him. He seldom visited Auster and now he was going to be living here in a maze full of wolves he didn't know. While Kiyo had done everything she could to reassure him of being welcomed, he still had his doubts and as they traveled and wrestled his wheelchair out of the sand along the way, he mulled them over but kept his thoughts to himself. He certainly didn't want her to think he was having second thoughts, he was just worried that her son wouldn't accept him and that was the last thing he wanted to burden her with.

Kiyo talked directions and Magnus turned his thoughts to the monkey holding the map and followed along the route she suggested. "Looks good to me," he said as he smiled and looked over at her. "Are you ready to go home?"

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