The Sisters vanished entirely then, and Aunt Harriet was standing over Tessa, her face flushed with fever as it had been during the terrible illness that had killed her. She looked at Tessa with great sadness. "I tried," she said. "I tried to love you. But it isn't easy to love a child that isn't human in the least...." "Not human?" said an unfamiliar female voice. "Well, if she isn't human, Enoch, what is she?" The voice sharpened in impatience. "What do you mean, you don't know? Everyone's something. This girl can't be nothing at all.
Cassandra ClareInvestigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names." "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.
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Cassandra ClareAm I blind?" Will's voice floated out of the darkness, tinged with annoyance. "I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.
Cassandra ClareSebastian just smiled. โI could hear your heart beating,โ he said softly. โWhen you were watching me with Valentine. Did it bother you?โ โThat you seem to be dating my dad?โ Jace shrugged. "Youโre a little young for him, to be honest.โ โWhat?โ For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted.
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