Summary

In “Days Past: Cirenworth Hall, 1898” recounts Cordelia’s sadness at having her brother return home on holiday from school for the first time only to find he had changed. He avoided her, was cold and distant, and finally admitted to her that the school was full of bullies and the bullied, and that he had chosen to be the former to avoid the suffering involved in the latter. She could see he was tormented by his experiences at school, and did not press further.

In Chapter 21: “Burn,” James awakens from a days-long period of healing to find Matthew next to him in the room. Though the other Shadowhunter adults knew nothing but that he had found and slain a Mandikhor in the cemetery where the Silent City could be entered, James had told his parents the full truth. They had assured him not...