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me, chanting: jem tessa mina kit content. jem tessa mina kit content. jem tessa mina kit content. JEM TESSA MINA KIT CONTENT

*joins ur chant*

the blackthorns have a thing about getting the herondales involved in their necromancy plans huh

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!!!

Paint day!!! Last week’s sobh post had me crying these two are so cute

Will: Charlotte, I’ve hurt myself very badly! You must call Jem!

Charlotte: *sighing* Will, it’s just a splinter. You’ll be fine.

Will: I’m bleeding out and I think an infection has already set in!

Charlotte:

Charlotte: Fine. *mumbling as she walks away* This is the third time this week.

I am a proud simp of all the Herondales and I am not afraid to show it.

Roland Loss and Auraline legit took one look at each other and said “you know what would make the Courts and the Clave go batshit?”

Dru To Kit

Julian to Helen and Aline

Dear Helen and Aline,

So Emma and I took the train from Paddington Station pretty early in the morning (I suppose we could have gone to the Institute and seen if they’d let us use their Portal, but it seemed like trouble and besides, it’s not our first train trip in England.)

We got off the train at Exeter, a sprawling town with a big Gothic cathedral. Tessa was waiting to pick us up in a racing-green Mini Cooper with Mina strapped into a kid’s seat in the back, wearing goggles. She reminded me of Tavvy when he was littler. Emma got in the back and played peek-a-boo with Mina, and I chatted with Tessa while we rolled through gorgeous green countryside. I hate it when people say “It looked like it does in the movies,” but it kind of did. I kept wanting to get out and paint the scenery.

We drove through a big gate, and then up a long road lined with oak and poplar trees. I thought we were in a national park of some kind — there were trails, and lots of greenery and flowers. Tessa told me the purple ones were bluebells (you’d think they’d be blue), and the yellow ones were celandine. We passed a big glass house and then we came out in front of what I swear I thought was a castle.

I think I knew Cirenworth was fancy, but I don’t think I realized how fancy. It’s this huge pile of gold-colored stone with little turrets, and windows full of leaded glass. There’s a big circular driveway in front, and we parked there in front of steps that looked like they could be outside a museum. Jem and Kit were waiting for us at the top and Mina started squealing with delight the moment she saw them. It was pretty cute.

We got a tour of the house — it turns out they only use about half of it, and the other half is closed off because it’s too much to take care of. I asked if they’d had to renovate the place and Jem said no, it had never fallen into disrepair like Blackthorn Hall. Tessa said she’d had to redecorate because it had been pretty dark “and a little moldy” when they moved in, but she said she’d redecorated before — apparently she fixed up the whole Institute a long time ago. I asked her about renovations, but she pointed out that back when she’d done the Institute, indoor plumbing had been a new thing.

Kit said they had put the internet into Cirenworth (do you “put the internet into” things? Emma says you “wire things for the internet.” I think neither is probably right) for him, because he uses it for school. I think he’s happy here. He pointed out things in all the different rooms that he liked — and there were a lot of different rooms. A big library with gold rugs, a games room with a pool table (only they call it something else), an inground swimming-pool, a bunch of offices, a music-room, a sewing-room, I mean, they probably have a room just for licking stamps and putting them on envelopes.

I realized this was the most I’d really seen of Kit since he left to go live with Tessa and Jem. I fell back to talk to him while Tessa was showing Emma the portrait gallery of Carstairs Past. He’s so much taller, almost my height now, and his voice sounds deeper. And I realized he looks older just like Ty looks older; I’d been almost thinking of him as the same age he was when I first saw him. But no, he’s growing up. Is grown up, maybe. Almost.

He said he wanted to show me something in the garden, so I followed him out through a French door. It was an overgrown spot — there were strawberry bushes, though no strawberries (not the season) and there was a cracked sundial in the middle. Kit said, without looking at me, that if it made me uncomfortable to be around him, or I didn’t want to see him, he could claim he had a headache and go to bed.

I was thrown. I asked him why I’d mind if he was there. He kicked some dirt around with his boots, and finally said, “Because — because of him.”

I didn’t say anything at first. I was a little frightened to. Kit had seemed fine inside, laughing and joking around and picking up Mina so she could climb on his shoulders. Now he reminded me more of the way he’d been when we first met him, or even the way Mark was when he came back from the Wild Hunt … Fragile.

“You mean Ty?” I said.

He nodded stiffly. “You’re his brother,” he said. “I mean, I talk to Dru, and she’s his sister, but — you were always more than just his older brother. You were like his father. I know you raised him. I guess I just meant that if you were on his side — I wouldn’t blame you.”

I said, “Ty has never indicated to me there’s a side to be on.”

Kit looked up. “He — hasn’t?”

“I know you two don’t talk,” I said. “I don’t know why. Ty’s never told me why. But he’s never blamed you, or said it was because of anything you’d done. People fight,” I added. “It happens. I wish you were friends again, because when you were, it was pretty special.” Ty was so happy. But I didn’t say that. “But either way, regardless of anything happening with you and Ty, we all went through so much together. You’ll always be one of us. Family.”

He said in a hoarse voice, “That means a lot.”

We all went and had dinner after that, and a lot of stuff got talked about — including that Tessa’s son James Herondale once had a gun that worked on demons, which Kit was pretty excited about — but this letter is getting pretty long, and I mostly wanted to tell you about Kit. I guess I didn’t realize how unhappy he was about the situation with Ty. I wonder if our whole hands-off attitude is working? I mean, I know it’s their business, but what if Ty is unhappy too? Is there something we should be doing?

—Jules

Julian to Helen and Aline

Hi guys. We just got back from Cirenworth and seeing Jem, Tessa, Kit (and Mina, of course.) I learned a great deal about Kit, about a gun and an old Herondale named James. I have to sort my thoughts out, but in the meantime, here’s a photo of all of us at Cirenworth. You ought to go sometime. It’s a pretty cool place.

J.

Personally I think it very fitting that a Blackthorn is on the Chain of Thornscover

“And give our love to the kiddies!!”

Your honour?? I love him

“…but whatever else we’ve learned about Tatiana we do feel pretty confident she was a strange one.”

…and the understatement of the year award goes to: Julian Blackthorn!!

I would like to keep reinforcing that Julian has an ELITE sense of humour

Emma and Julian bouncing jokes off of one another is just such a them thing to do

I’m still getting over the fact that Julian and Emma can just straight up talk to Rupert???

Does Rupert ever strike up a conversation with this newfound ability or does he just wait for Julian and Emma to coax him out??

Except Dru, who claims she’d rather keep it cursed for the ambience (not that she’s been here yet.)

And we love her for that.

Nobody:

Me: yes, Emma, Julian might be your boyfriend, but he’s MY husband.

Things I cried about in this week’s SoBH: a masterlist

1. Right off the bat, Julian being nervous about Ty coming over because he was afraid that things would be different
2. Emma writing on Julian’s hand with her finger just like old times
3. Julian and Emma hiding under the covers together
4. The entire scene where Ty dropped his duffel bag and ran up to Julian and Julian wrapped him up in a big hug
5. Julian calling Tiberius “Ty-Ty.”
6. Julian telling Ty to pick a room and decorate it however he likes — because that will be HIS ROOM NOW?? LIKE THAT’S NOW TY’S ROOM?? I AM SOBBING?? LIKE OMG THIS HOUSE IS FEELING LIKE A HOME??
7. Ty suggesting Sherlock and Watson statues for the garden.
8. THIS ART: