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1 " I'm seven hundred years old, Alexander. I know when something isn't going to work. You won't even admit I exist to your parents." Alec stared at him. " I thought you were three hundred! You're seven huundred years old?" " Well," Magnus amended, " eight hundred. But I dont look it. Anyway, you're missing the point. The point is-" But Alec never found out what the point was because at that moment a dozen more Iblis demons flooded into the square. He felt his jaw drop. " Damn it." Magnus followed his gaze. the demons were already fanning out into a half circle around them, their yellow eyes glowing. " Way to change the subject, Lightwood. "
2 " Alec?" Magnus was staring at him. He had dispatched the remaining Iblis demons, and the square was empty but for the two of them. " Did you just- did you just save my life?" Alec knew he ought to say something like, Of course, because I'm a Shadowhunter and that's what we do, or That's my job. Jace would have said something like that. Jace always knew the right thing to say. But the words that actually came out of Alec's mouth where quite different- and sounded petulant, even to his own ears. " You never called me back," he said. " I called you so many times and you never called me back." Magnus looked at Alec as if he'd lost his mind. " Your city is under attack," he said. " The wards have broken, and the streets are full of demons. And you want to know why I haven't called you? "
