As she speaks, Freddie realizes just how different she'd been at the party, under the influence of the spiked wine. His memories of the evening are all more than a bit blurry, but he wouldn't have assumed to hear a story like this that night, hadn't expected her to be so... stoic, in a way. Grounded.

"And you think he stays solely to cause me pain," he says, though as the words leave his lips, he realizes it does actually sound very much like something Magnus would do. "And that he's holding power over me by dangling that blood manor over my head so I'm more annoyed that he's sticking around. That's shit!"