“No one will think that,” Simon said, his voice muffled against Clary’s hair. “You and me, Simon, we’re going to be brothers. “We’re going to be family,” he said glumly. Jace lay down on the floor, arms thrown wide. Clary burst into happy tears and threw her arms around Simon. One of them fell off a rafter and thumped to the ground on a training mat. Some of the students, fearing a demon attack, also screamed. “I just proposed to Isabelle,” he announced.īeatriz screamed with excitement. Not that Simon looked like a dependable voice of reassurance at the moment.

It was a job that often took him away from New York, which was its downside in the plus column, Simon seemed to truly enjoy helping scared mundanes with the Sight feel like they weren’t truly alone. When likely candidates for Ascension were found, Simon would talk to them about what it meant to become a Shadowhunter after a mundane life. Simon was a graduate of Shadowhunter Academy, Clary’s parabatai, and a Recruiter, a job created by the Consul to help replenish the diminished ranks of Shadowhunters. Jace and Clary had been in the training room, checking in on the new Institute tutor, Beatriz Mendoza, and some of the Conclave students. Two days previously, Simon had showed up at the Institute, breathless and wild-eyed. The room was filled with people Clary loved and cared about, and in her personal opinion it looked pretty good, considering she’d had to race to find somewhere in the Institute they could hold a party on about twenty-four hours’ notice. It was a hot New York summer night, the windows were flung open, and Magnus had magicked up icicles that sparkled down from the ceiling and cooled the space.

This is the (super super adorable) extra short story that’s included in the hardback/paperback first editions of Lady Midnight! In case you got LM on ebook or audiobook and are missing out, here it is! (it catches up with the rest of the TMI characters up to the point where they arrive at the LA Institute.)Ĭlary looked around the Institute’s music room with a tired but gratified smile.

Lady midnight rune edition