[Cisco may shrug it off, but Magnus sure doesn't. The phrase "I got my ass kicked constantly" strikes a particularly ugly chord with him. Cisco is exactly the person Magnus would've stood by to defend had they known each other when they were younger. It's actually pretty upsetting to think that he wasn't there to kick those bullies right back—

—but that's in the past. Remembering Taako's entirely-plagiarised book brings him back to the present, and he laughs.]

Yep, that's the one. And I can't even fault him for that. The best scam I've ever seen pulled off.

[He's unsure how to proceed regarding Lucretia. He doesn't know what the relationship is between her and Cisco, but he does know that Cisco is likely to side with Taako on issues regarding her, so he responds carefully.]

Yeah, I stopped by. Asked some questions, got some answers. [He shrugs, but it's clear through his stiff movement that he still doesn't know quite how to feel about everything.]