385 Welcome back

To say that Magnus was baffled was an understatement. One moment Lucien's emotions seemed reasonably self-contained and the next he had an arm full of the redhead in tears.

He cast desperate glances at Riha and Enkansh who had arrived somewhere around the time Lucien began to have his 'moment'. The sea-dwelling creatures furtively looked between them. This was quickly followed with their beating a hasty retreat back to their rooms. The sheer cowardice displayed by his housemates had Magnus gaping at the door after their escape. 

"Hey," he murmured when it was obvious that help would not be forthcoming from his housemates, awake or otherwise. Magnus hadn't comforted a crying friend in what seemed like a hundred years. "I've got some food and wine."