You thought you were saving your mother.

[ That’s what they’d told her. Or implied to her, which is almost worse. They’d made her believe that they could help her mother, and of course, she hadn’t thought of the cost. Neither had d’Artagnan, originally. No one imagines that they’re about to be required to destroy actual planets. That’s insane. What sort of person would that ever occur to?

He closes his eyes. ]

I’m sorry. Maybe they can help. Maybe they will.

What of the ordinary authorities in your world? Doctors, guards. Can’t they help? Are the Shadowhunters so completely separate?