"Thank you." He sips the fresh cup of tea slowly, thinking it over, rolling the grain of it around until all the chaff is loose and can be blown away. He is overwhelmed, but the time spent training with Lan Wangji has made him feel less helpless: being able to see the slow build of his strength and balance, the way he's become able to move his body in different ways. He's also grateful to spend so much time with Lan Wangji. He can remember the time when he was suspicious of him and his intentions, when he saw Lan Wangji only as a stranger who might try to affect his mind. The man he knows now is a friend and a teacher, someone he respects so much that finding out how they're alike gives Galahad pleasure and relief. He's someone to look up to, and a hope for Galahad's own future.

Galahad does feel somewhat unsettled still that Magnus is jealous of them, but things are better with him and Magnus now that they've talked about it. And Magnus can ask to spend time with them if he wants to. It's not Galahad's fault, or something he's done wrong.

"I don't want to stop," he says finally.