If I’d just listened—just taken one second to listen—it wouldn’t have happened

“No fewer than four of my esteemed elders told me I was on no account to ever co…”

“And if the Thames that ran beside them, sure and silver in the afternoon light,…”

“How they loved each other, these three, how they had suffered for each another,…”

“I don’t want to be Nephilim,” said Jace. “I want to be something else. Stronger…”