The day started out as any other. Magnus woke up, dressed and made breakfast for himself. He also made sure to feed his cat, Chairman Meow and clean out his litter box. After a few minutes of watching the news he left for work promptly at 6:35 to ensure he arrived to work at exactly 7:15 each day. Magnus worked as a makeup artist and hairstylist for a modeling agency called, Downworld Models. He quite enjoyed this job and was very talented. One of his favorite models was Clary Fray, a young 18 year old trying to make a career. She always looked great in her outfits, but was very clumsy and couldn't maintain a straight face for too long without cracking a smile. Magnus liked that about her because she could always find joy in her work.

After work, Magnus went to the library to drop off and find new books. He loved perusing the shelves and finding a new story to read. Recently he had been reading more and more fantasy books about magic and dragons. He wasn't one for the simple 'the prince saves the damsel' stories, he loved the ones about dragons. Dragons always fascinated him, especially as a child. They were big, powerful, and mysterious. He really liked stories where the dragon wasn't the villain, so that another side of dragons could be shown. Of course he could only learn so much because dragons didn't exist. That was until he actually met one.

He was in the library looking for any new fantasy books he hadn't read yet when he saw it. It was big and had a golden spine with the word 'Draconem' written on it in fancy black lettering. Instantly he recognized this as the Latin word for dragon. He had to check it out. He grabbed the ladder attached to the bookcase and slid it over to where the book was. Then he climbed up, but realized the book was almost all the way at the top of the bookcase. He was already about 6 feet in the air, but he had to keep going if he wanted that book. So he kept climbing until he finally grabbed it and started descending the ladder, only to look down and almost lose his balance.

"Hey, you tryin' to kill yourself there?" said a low voice from below. He looked down again to see who it was, but as soon as he did he started losing his balance again.

"Don't look down or you'll fall, just keep putting one foot down onto the next rung and the next. Look forward and focus on coming down."

Magnus did what the man said and eventually came down from the ladder. When he got back to the ground, he turned to see a tall man staring down at him.

"So, did you get what you were looking for? What were you climbing 7 feet in the air to get anyways?"

"I was trying get a book about dragons and I found this." Magnus said, showing him the book. The man looked as though he had been struck, but his expression quickly returned to nonchalance.

"Dragons? You like dragons?" he asked skeptically.

"Yeah I do, is liking dragons bad?"

"Not at all, if you want I can show you some pretty accur-good books about them."

Magnus then realized the man was wearing a shiny name tag with the name "Alec Lightwood" on it. He must work here, he thought.

"Yeah, that'd be great, Alexander." Magnus said with a smirk.

Alec raised an eyebrow, but said nothing gesturing for Magnus to follow. Alec led him through aisles upon aisles of books until they came to an isolated bunch of bookcases. There was a big sign in front of them with "Magical Creatures" written in big purple letters. The first bookcase was labeled "Fairies" and the second "Elves". Finally they got to the one labeled "Dragons".

"This is a special section of books created by my family, for people that like magical creatures. My sister put this all together so she does have some rules about the books. Really there's only one you need to abide by though: if you aren't trusted by her you can't check out these books, but I'll let you just this once. Just don't mess them up or she'll come after me and you. Anyways, if you need anymore rescues just holler and I'll come runnin'. Enjoy your dragons." he said waving goodbye and walking off.

"Well, maybe I'll have to check that book out sometime," Magnus grinned to himself, watching Alec walk back into the many shelves of books.