( It's hard to try and keep her smile from being tinged with sadness. Maybe in time she'll stop feeling like this. But for now, whenever she thinks of Jace it's followed by a tight squeeze of wild fear around her ribs, a helpless rush of adrenaline because she wants to be able to do something. Fix it somehow. She can't, she doesn't know how, and so she has to focus on the here and now, Jace talking and laughing across the length of a crowded room. Real and somehow impossibly alive. )

Yeah.

( And she does smile, hopelessly sweet. ) It was about time, right? I'm done with the universe trying to take it away from me.

( She'll fight, especially here. It's all she has. ) What about you and Magnus? I know back home things were difficult. But you're okay? ( Being married in one world and then not, she can't imagine that. )