#qoaad spoilers

Things I’ll never recover from: Michael’s ghost at Robert’s funeral to finally reunite with his parabatai.

He saw a man coming toward the Lightwoods and blinked his watering eyes. He was a young man, handsome, with curling brown hair and a square jaw. He wasn’t wearing white like the others, but plain black gear. As he passed Maryse he stopped and laid a hand on her shoulder.

[…]

The young man with the dark hair had moved to kneel beside Robert Lightwood’s pyre. He was closer to the flames than any human could have gotten, and they seemed to eddy within the outline of his body, lightning eyes with fiery tears.

Parabatai,Kit thought suddenly. In the slump of the young man’s shoulders, in his outstretched hands, in the longing stamped on his face, he saw Emma and Julian, he saw Alec as he spoke about Jace; he knew he was looking at the ghost of Robert Lightwood’s parabatai. He didn’t know how he knew it, but he did.

A cruel sort of bond, he thought, that made one person out of two people, and left such devastation when half was gone.

Queen of Air and Darkness ~ chapter 3

“A King of Faerie can have no human consort.”

Kieran:

Mark:

Cristina:

Kieran: Watch me.