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There was a long pause Magnus stared into the bottom of his coffee cup and desperately willeda lot of nus had one up on those suckers Hiswith rich dark liquid He sipped and looked at Elyaas, as shifting uncomfortably from tentacle to tentacle

"Well," said Elyaas "This is aard"

"It’s nothing personal," said Magnus

"Maybe if I jogged your ested helpfully "You su for a demon who cursed a Shadowhunter? Bill Herondale?"

"Will Herondale," said Magnus

Elyaas snapped his tentacles as if they were fingers "I kneas sohtened, "I think I do reht away that you weren’t the de for You looked kind of blue in one of the drawings, but obviously you are not blue, and I asting your ti of it" Elyaas waved a tentacle "These things happen And I can look blue You know, in the right light"

"Lighting’s inus

"So whatever happened with Bill Herondale and that curse a blue deenuine

"Will Herondale," Magnus said again "It’s actually rather a long story"

"You know, so people and we don’t really do it," said Elyaas chattily "Like, just for kicks? It’s kind of a thing with us Did you know that?"

"You could have nus observed frostily

Elyaas shook his head, s a slime-bedecked smile "The old pretend-to-curse It’s a classic Very funny" He appeared to notice Magnus’s unimpressed expression for the first time "Not from your perspective, of course"

"It wasn’t funny for Bill Herondale!" said Magnus "Oh, danus’s phone buzzed on the counter where he had left it Magnus hted when he saw that it was Catarina He had been expecting her call