Value your parabatai," he said. "For it is a precious bond. All love is precious. It is why we do what we do. Why do we fight demons? Why are they not fit custodians of this world? What makes us better? It is because they do not build, but destroy. They do not love, but hate only. We are human and fallible, we Shadowhunters. But if we did not have the capability to love, we could not guard humans; we must love to guard them. My parabatai, he loved like few ever could love, with all and everything. I see you are like that too; it burns more brightly in you than the fire of Heaven
Do you remember,_ he said, __hen we first met and I told you I was ninety percent sure putting a rune on you wouldn__ kill you__nd you slapped me in the face and told me it was for the other ten percent?_ Clary nodded.__ always figured a demon would kill me,_ he said. __ rogue Downworlder. A battle. But I realized then that I just might die if I didn__ get to kiss you, and soon._ Clary licked her dry lips. __ell, you did,_ she said. __iss me, I mean.__e reached up and took a curl of her hair between his fingers. He was close enough that she could feel the warmth of his body, smell his soap and skin and hair.__ot enough,_ he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. __f I kiss you all day every day for the rest of my life, it won__ be enough.
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Do you remember,_ he said, __hen we first met and I told you I was ninety percent sure putting a rune on you wouldn__ kill you__nd you slapped me in the face and told me it was for the other ten percent?_ Clary nodded.__ always figured a demon would kill me,_ he said. __ rogue Downworlder. A battle. But I realized then that I just might die if I didn__ get to kiss you, and soon._ Clary licked her dry lips. __ell, you did,_ she said. __iss me, I mean.__e reached up and took a curl of her hair between his fingers. He was close enough that she could feel the warmth of his body, smell his soap and skin and hair.__ot enough,_ he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. __f I kiss you all day every day for the rest of my life, it won__ be enough.
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