I read chain of thorns btw, it was fine but I have a lot of a lot of little complaints that just add up lol
Julian to Helen and Aline
Hi guys. We just got back from Cirenworth and seeing Jem, Tessa, Kit (and Mina, of course.) I learned a great deal about Kit, about a gun and an old Herondale named James. I have to sort my thoughts out, but in the meantime, here's a photo of all of us at Cirenworth. You ought to go sometime. It's a pretty cool place.
J.
Dearest Magnus,
Jem, Kit and I are so looking forward to your visit. In preparation, Kit has been attempting to teach Mina to say your name. She’s almost got it, but you may have to content yourself with being called “Agnes,” as she has trouble with the M — very trying for her as she is so advanced in her speech, just as you say Max was. You should have heard them in the kitchen this morning. “Who is coming to visit, Mina?” “Agnes!” I feel that your alter ego, Agnes, would wear sequins and be absolutely deadly at whist.
Thank you for your thoughts about the wards. I will look for labradorite at the gem store in Exeter. I tried what you suggested with the chickens—I was able to borrow a Blue Orpington from a neighbor on the last quarter moon. Since then chickens seem to be avoiding Kit, so maybe it will work on demons too? (Though can you really tell when a chicken is avoiding someone as opposed to just being a chicken?)
Jem and I are endeavoring to walk a narrow line, keeping Kit safe and hidden while also providing him with the most normal life we can. We don’t want to lock him away in a tower like a fairytale princess—he’d be miserable. And Mina would be miserable, she just adores him and rides everywhere on his back, clutching onto his shirt with her little hands. It reminds me of the way James and Lucie used to ride on Will’s shoulders. I suppose times change, but children never do.
We’re trying to allow Kit freedom wherever we can. He’s enrolled at the small school in the village, where a few of his friends know about the Shadow World and others don’t. There’s a local pack of werewolves who we’ve become friendly with, and some of their children go to school with him. I’ve begun to suspect that Kit has a girlfriend, but he’s secretive about it. (I guess that’s another thing that never changes about children—how secretive they are. I just hope he knows he can tell us anything. Especially related to demons, or in Kit’s case, the fey. A hundred and ten years later and I’m still edgy.)
He’s a puzzle, our Christopher Jonathan Herondale. About some things he’s opened up, and is willing to talk to Jem and me about them freely — his father, and what it was like growing up being able to see all sorts of peculiar things but not really understanding why. About being taught to fear Shadowhunters. About his concerns about his heritage — what it means, what kind of power he might have. I think it frustrates him, not knowing.
Other things he won’t talk about. We have asked him about Ty, as you and I discussed, but he’s like a brick wall about their friendship. Whatever happened he won’t speak of it. I think Livvy’s death hit him harder than we guessed, too. I’ve heard him call out her name in his sleep, always in this very despairing way. Sometimes he’ll say Not if you do this. Not if you do this, Ty. I feel like whatever they fought about, it must have been awful. But people can be terrible when they’re grieving; we both know that.
You can probably tell from everything I’ve said how much I — how much we — love Kit. I just love him, Magnus, like he was my own. He is my own. I’d kill anyone who wanted to hurt him, just as I would protect Mina or Jem with my life. I never thought I’d have this again, this perfect family I love so much it hurts. Strange after so many years to be so surprised by one’s own feelings — but I imagine it’s much the same for you, isn’t it? Speaking of which, I hope you and Alec and the kids are well. Please let Max know that we found his superhero cape—it was inside the piano.
I enclose a picture from your last visit here. How adorable they all are!
Love,📷
Tessa
Tessa: Wow, if I had a nickel for every time one of my kids tried to use necromancy to bring a Blackthorn back to life, I'd have two nickels—which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
So I’m gonna need that jem and magnus short story stat, does anyone know where I can read it?
I want to be into this whole Matthew/Cordelia thing but since they introduced him being in love with Lucie first, I’ll never get over that lol
Malcolm and Annabel is still a really interesting and tragic story and the ending of that story is still so weird and dumb to me lol
Lmao I’m just skipping past any side couple stuff at this point. Does anyone not care about anything outside of the main romance? Like in general, I’m not interested in side couples but cc seems to be obsessed with pairing literally everyone up lol.
Btw filomena feels like cartoonishly suspicious which is probably a red herring but I still don’t trust her
Now Will and Tessa are leaving? 🧍♀️
Me: Oh they skipped two weeks ahead?? Jem and magnus are already back?
The book immediately: no you fucking idiot why would you get the one thing you wanted
WAIT so the reason Magnus and Jem are getting a short story together is because they’re gonna be off on their own adventure and not be here for most of the book? Cool cool love that
Wow first time I haven’t read a shadowhunter book the moment it was published. I didn’t even know it was out lmao. I haven’t reread the first one or kept up with fandom at all so I barely remember chain of gold and refuse to do any recapping, let’s party.
That time of year again when i jingle miserably back to this blog to read the single ounce of jessa content made available to me
jem and tessa for @jemsboner, happy birthday savanna. ♡