Extraits

Everyone else was excited to go on another mission. Simon was looking forward to it as well, and pleased for George’s sake. But Simon was mostly excited because after the mission, he had somewhere else to be.

Do you remember the name of your heart?

-Your brother Mark sends you his love, and his happiness for your love.

Helen stared at him, sudden tears in her eyes but her smile even more radiant than before.

The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and it was a beautiful day at Shadowhunter Academy.

Well, Simon was pretty sure the sun was shining. There was a faint luminescence to the air in his and George’s underground chamber, casting a pleasant glow upon the green slime that coated their walls.

And all right, he could not hear the birds from his subterranean room, but George did come back from the showers singing.

“Good morning, Si! I saw a rat in the bathroom, but he was taking a nice nap and we didn’t bother each other.”

“Or the rat was dead of a very infectious disease which has now been introduced to our water system,” Simon suggested. “We may be drinking plague-rat water for weeks.”