Jace leaned against the frame of the door, watching Jose as she played her fingers along the spines of the books. Jace thought Jose couldn't see him, but he had thought wrong.
"Do you have any mundane literature here? Jose asked, not raising her eyes from the shelf.
Jace only looked taken aback for a moment before replying. "Of course, further towards the back. The bookshelf on the left of the fireplace."
Jose meandered to the shelf, smiling at the titles. "Great Expectations, Persuasion. Oh my god!" She exclaimed.
"What?" Asked Jace, rushing foreword.
She turned around, her face a mask of excitement. Jace instantly cooled. "Dracula! You guys have Dracula. I've been meaning to read this for so long but my dad said that it was disrespectful to the Night's Children and so he never let me read it. Oh, I'm babbling, aren't I? I do that when I get excited." Jose said, turning sheepish and a brilliant shade of red.
Jace laughed. "I like it. Most Shadowhunters, even Alec and Izzy, don't tirade much."
"What about Clary?"
He sighed happily. "Clary's a mixture of everything." He shook his head as if to clear his thoughts. "Anyway, I am here to formally escort Miss Lady Jose to her new bedroom." Jace extended his arm. "You may take the book if you please."
Jose tucked Dracula under her arm and took Jace's with the other, looping her hand above the crook of his elbow. She had to sort of reach up, but it was quite a gentlemanly gesture, that she could not of refused. He led her to the elevator, clicking on a button marked 4.
"What is the floor system here?"
"Ground and floor one are our commune type locations. Library, infirmary and all of that Jazz sit there. Floor two, three and four all have about thirty rooms. We've just chosen four as ours."
The elevator swinger to a stop, and Jace stepped out, Josephine in tow.
"Now, you can have any room besides one, sixteen and twenty-nine. The choice is yours."
"And they're all the same size?"
"Yeppers."
"Well… seven is my lucky number."
"Alrighty then, seven it is."