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Pain, Jace

Jace had grown up with pain. It was something he had grown used to over the years, in his line of work, it was hardly avoidable. It no longer bothers him as much as it used to. He remembers getting his first mark, the cool steel burning him as the rune was drawn. Now, every time he draws a rune on his skin, he doesn't even notice the sting, it is as if his body has become immune to it. However, as attuned he was to physical pain, he couldn't stand emotional pain. It seemed to engulf him, to drown him. He remembers the first time he had felt this sort of pain, as he looked down to the body of his dead bird, it confused him, he had never felt anything like it before. Perhaps this sharpness of emotional pain comes from the numbness he has acquired to physical pain.

Questions, Alec/Magnus

Alec had never been one to pry and ask questions. But with Magnus, curiosity took over, and he had asked the older man about his past. Magnus had just sighed sadly and replied "There has been nothing of importance before I met you, Alexander". Alec usually would have never thought about it again, but he was becoming increasingly curious. He knew Magnus was hiding something, and it bugged him to no end. But perhaps it would've been best if Alec had not asked at all. One day, Alec had been taking a shortcut through a dead-looking graveyard, when he saw someone kneeling by a grave, clearly upset. Thinking nothing of it, he continued on, when he realised that the figure was horribly familiar.

"I'm sorry, Alec. I should have told you".

Looking at the engraving on the gravestone, he felt empty. "Edwin Bane, loving friend,, brother and husband. We will miss you forever".

Rain, Simon

Simon had never really liked the rain. He hated getting wet, and the cold. He hated the miserable feeling and atmosphere it brought down with it. He hated lying awake on rainy nights, unable to sleep due to the sound of the rain hammering against the window. But since Simon was Changed, he began to quite like the rain, the fresh feeling it brought along with it. He no longer felt the cold, and on rainy nights would sit in the garden, letting the rain soak him, enjoying the scents that it brought. But the thing he liked most about the rain was the cleanliness, for when he was in the rain, he felt as if his soul was becoming clean, purer.

Safe, Simon.

Simon missed the good old days, when nothing was complicated, there was no secrets, no lies, no hiding. When he never felt scared, or in danger, he always felt safe. That is what he misses the most about his old life. How it was so safe, he never had to worry about anything. As exciting as it was living in the shadow world, he wanted nothing more than his old, simple life back, with the feeling of being safe.

Time, Clary

Clary had never before realised the power of time. She hadn't realised how much someone's life can change in just a single day… (She remembers that day clearly, as if it were yesterday - the day she was thrown head-first into the shadow world.) She never realised how important time can be to some people - with their shortened lifespan, the shadow hunters seem to be aware of time in a way Clary had never experienced whilst living as a mundane. When you can fall at any moment, living for today is so important.