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“ wise words for such a young child, ” the seelie queen mused, smirk tugging at the corner of her lips. it wasn’t often that she found herself intrigued by a much younger generation than her own, but the young shadowhunter, one that looked almost vaguely familiar, had managed to keep her attention thus far. “ no harm in enjoying the calm while it lasts. after all, all’s fair in love and war, isn’t it? ”

“Not really,” Rowan said, inexplicably thrown off by the idea that she could be wise. Especially because she spent a great deal of her time using evasive wit. Rowan, though, bounced back easily enough, seeing an opportunity for her flirtatious. “Well who said anything about love, your majesty?” she said, eyes glimmering in the sunlight with mischief. 

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“ a high pain tolerance won’t get you very far if you’re dead, lightthorn. ” luciana remarked, very little hint of teasing in your voice. “ i’m just telling you. don’t get too cocky. you might think you’re on top of the world right now, but in a given moment, that can all come tumbling down. you younger lot need to be more careful. ”

Rowan sighed, exasperatedly. “and you ‘ older lot ’ need to pull the seraph blade from up your asses every once in a while,” she countered, her remark partially springing from her irritation at all the extra shadowhunters currently bossing people around in the Institute. “From what I hear, Luci, you used to be a lot less careful,” she ribbed.

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lorxhearted:

His heart pounded furiously, slight fear flooding his eyes. He only calmed down when the her voice pushed his lips to a smile. “Oh you know I would,” he teased, exposing his teeth as if pretending he was capable of such. Though his words could be brutal, Lorcas was quite light hearted and not threatening. “Exactly. I was just about to call you.” A lie, but she must have known the truth. “I needed to get out of there. So much bullshit in one meeting, my mind was spiraling. Want to get some drinks?”

Rowan narrowed her eyes and quirked an eyebrow. “Yeah but you know I bite back, remember the vampire?” she said. “Though it was hardly worth it given the Holy Water ordeal afterwards,” she said, scrunching up her face in disgust. “Liar,” Rowan said, quirking an eyebrow. Rowan sighed. “Yeah it was a lot. Glad I got to slip out before my mom could spot and corner me,” she grumbled. Rowan didn’t miss a beat when he offered to get some drinks. “Actually, I’d much rather go to wherever it was you were sneaking off to when I found you,” she said, the sweetness of her tone somehow not lessening the seriousness of her words. 

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felix-waldorf:

At Rowan’s wordless signal, Felix floated a cocktail glass over from the cabinets behind the bar - the table nearest their sofa was out already - and went ahead and poured her one of the same. (Was she even legal age yet? he wondered idly. She certainly hadn’t been when they met. Maybe she was by now. Not that he really cared.) He held it out by the stem towards her.

“I know very well how the clave likes pulling rank.” The clave had always been a vague annoyance in the background of Felix’s existence - they were so uptight about everything. And as for their shadowhunters, the ones following the clave’s rules… well, glorified police really did sum it up well. “Oh, I don’t envy your job. I can’t imagine many submitting willingly. The thought of that almost makes the whole thing bearable. If we’re all miserable, then at the very least, you should be as well.” Felix chuckled wryly before knocking back a long sip of his drink.

“Do you get to choose who, specifically, you’re after to track? You could always waste a good length of time trying to track me. I’m very hard to catch,” he snorted, gesturing to the sofa on which he was lounging, clearly no more than three feet from the shadowhunter. His suggestion was made partly in jest, but it might not be a bad idea, really. That could solve both of their problems with the issue - assuming she didn’t turn around and actually stick him with a tracker. He didn’t think she would, but you could never really know.

“Oh yes, because it’s clearly your social life that’s at stake here.” But Rowan’s tone of voice gave her away. Felix grinned, knowing that she’d come through with information of some sort. Or at least let him know that there was no information to be had. “Without my parties, there will obviously be nothing left for you to live for. Oh, wait, that’s me. Regardless, it’s clearly in your best interest to snoop and share.”

Rowan grinned as Felix intuitively, happy Felix didn’t care enough to remember she was ‘ underage ’ ( or maybe he just did know and didn’t give a fuck ). She wondered if everyone felt underage when you were his age, or if it even mattered. “Gotta love magic,” she sighed contentedly, grabbing hold of the drink Felix poured her and swirling her wrist around once before drinking it. “If it’s an excuse to get out of the institute for a while, it won’t be too horrible. Anything to avoid my mother,” she said in a singsong voice. Rowan rolled her eyes, amused at Felix’s proposition. “I doubt it, though I might be able to put in a request,” she said. “But it’s kind of hard to say you’re hard to find when you throw huge-ass parties like you do,” she pointed out, teasingly. “You’re about as subtle as your outfits,” she quipped. Rowan nodded. “Glad you understand how high the stakes are for my social life,” she said solemnly. Rowan pretended to muse. “I don’t know, with you out of the way, I could become the High-Shadowhunter of manhattan,” she teased. 

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felix-waldorf:

“Yes. The clave is ‘really messed up.’“ Felix mocked the phrase as he leaned back in his chair, tilting his head up towards the ceiling wearily. It was… beyond frustrating. And the clave were idiots as well, if they assumed the downworlders would lie down and do what they were told. Rowan’s hopeful tone of voice caused the shadow of a grin to cross Felix’s face. At least not all shadowhunters were idiots. “That’s the plan, darling. Well, not to disable, I should hope it wouldn’t get that far. Just to… avoid.” He paused and sat up reach over and pour himself a glass of what was mostly vodka. “There’s no way you could give me a few details on the trackers, could you? Can’t do a spell if I don’t know what I’m spelling against.”

Rowan’s lips twitched with a smile. Figures Felix already had evasive tactics planned already. Rowan held out her hand, signaling he should pour her a glass of what was probably just straight-up vodka, as well. “They’ve been pretty tight-lipped about it,” Rowan admitted, the whole thing rather frustrating. “You know how the clave likes pulling rank,” she muttered. “All they’ve really told us so far is that you’re screwed if you refuse a tracking device and us being the glorified police of the supernatural world, we’re gonna be the ones installing them,” Rowan said, though she kind of wanted to get out of doing it. Who was she to be installing tracking devices? “But I was planning on doing some snooping anyways because I wanna know what the clave knows so...I’ll see what I can find out for you,” she said, slowly. “Y’know, because if they tracked you, it’d probably just lead to shutting down the best bangers and that would really put a wrench in my social life,” she added hurriedly, so as not show she actually cared.

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Annoyed with how crowded the institute was with busybodies and people trying to prove they outrank one another, Rowan had slipped out the first chance she’d gotten. She’d already had the most obnoxious encounter with her mother, who was stopping by to help the enclave enforce the tracking law before heading back off to go be the badass, hyped-up shadowhunter goddess that everyone fawned over. Not before, of course, giving her daughter grief about her needing to take things more seriously and stop galavanting off with downworlders. As Rowan made her way to central park in a secluded wooded area she liked, she felt her annoyance ebb away. Weapons and stele still concealed beneath her clothes, she laid down on the grass and looked up at the sky, but paused as she heard a rustle. Reaching around her waist quick as a flash, she grabbed a throwing star, chucking it at whoever was there, intentionally missing them and grazing the air right next to their head as a warning before the dagger rooted itself in the tree behind them. “ Can I help you? ” Rowan asked sweetly though coupled with her, actings it came off as sassy.

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felix-waldorf:

“It’s clearly a product of paranoia more than anything. Not to victim-blame,” pronounced Felix pointedly, “but this whole… tracker thing could have been avoided if the shadowhunters were simply more careful not to get killed, don’t you think?” He sighed, knowing that such words were certainly oversimplifying the issue but still embittered enough to voice them anyway. “But ah, what’s a little invasion-of-privacy, a little pointed-show-of-power, after all?”

Rowan studied Felix as he spoke, and feeling the pang in her chest at what he was saying. She couldn’t really blame him. She’d be beyond pissed if the clave tried to put a tracking device in her. And probably and a hell of a lot of trouble, too. “Not gonna lie, the clave is really messed up with this one,” she said, though no one had a choice, she supposed. The clave was the clave and that was that. The law is hard but blah blah blah. “Can’t you find some warlock-y magic to disable them?” Rowan asked hopefully. 

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“ it’s been dreadfully quiet around here as of late, don’t you think? ” eidothea mused to the soul sat beside her, having ventured away from her court for a rare moment away. “ i’ve yet to decide if this bodes well for the city or if this is merely the calm before the storm. ”

Rowan often wandered near the entrance to the Seelie court, spending a lot of time in the park and it appeared today she had the company of the Seelie queen. “Every calm is just the calm before the storm,” Rowan mused with a shrug. “A storm has to come eventually. Doesn’t mean we can’t make the most of the calm, though,” Rowan smirked, batting her eyelashes.

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bytheangcls:

“ you know, you really ought to be more careful with these, ” luciana remarked, shaking her head slightly as she twirled the one of the throwing knives she’d taken between her fingers. “ you never know when someone who might actually want to hurt you with them is gonna come up and try that exact same thing. you’re lucky it was just me.  ”

Rowan snorted, unconcerned, crossing her hands across her chest with a mischievous look in her eyes. “Lucky for me, I have a high pain tolerance,” she said smoothly, making it clear just how suggestive her words were.

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hcllridge:

BORED— that was certainly one word to describe how teegan currently felt. while the shadowhunter was always happy to oblige to any given tasks or missions, on the warm summers night she wished that maybe she’d have gotten herself into something a little more interesting than patrol duty. almost envious of the group whom were sent to scope out a suspicious sighting in an apparently abandoned building. albeit, a branch breaking a short distance behind her rings so clearly in her eardrums— nimble fingers already curling around the head of the knives either side of her thigh holsters; runes littered against them already beginning to glow. swift movements warrant the female to turn on her heel, already pointing one of her blades in the direction she’d heard the echoing noise from. “who goes there?” 

Having gone off to on her own ahead of the patrol group to scope out the building--despite the fact that she had been refused to be apart of that group--Rowan was attempting to slip back into the institute. With the new tracking rule instated, there’d been all sorts of obnoxiously stuffy enclave members marching around telling one another what to do. It would’ve been almost humorous if it wasn’t such a pain in the ass. Slipping swiftly in the night between the trees for cover, she rather liked being stealthy like this, gliding between the coverage so fast and with such ease she almost felt like she was flying--until the bow slung around her shoulders got caught on a branch. She knew whoever was patrolling would definitely hear her and she was proven right when the literal pain in her ass Teegan called out. Rowan scoffed, stepping out of the shadows with ease. “Who goes there? Rowan mimicked, “What century are you from?” she said, lips curled into a smirk, not the least bit daunted by the girl’s blades. 

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lorxhearted:

The meeting had come to a close and the Shadowhunter was the first to quickly dismiss himself. Slipping away in silence, Lorcas shuffled through the hall until exiting the institute. He had not thought much besides seeing his brother. There was a lot to be discussed, especially the pending danger which the young boy was in. Pushing the thought aside, Lorcas shifted through the streets, distancing himself further and further from all conformity. There was little wrong in these meetings as they had a right to speak with a Downworlder if so pleased. Though some had openly spoke against the existence of such creatures, including werewolves and the like that brought danger to humankind. Having sided with neither party, this young asset was sure to be on someone radar – no one was quick sure what circled in his mind. “Can I help you?” He rolled his eyes softly, head twisting as he turned into the alleyway. 

Rowan could practically feel the tensioin in the room as the meeting closed and she looked to lock eyes with her parabatai but saw he’d practically flown out of the room. Rowan pushed past the crowd of gathered Shadowhunters to try and catch up with Lorcas. She followed him, gaining on his swift pace easily and she could practically see the waves of distress on him, finally catching up to him in an alleyway. “Don’t bite my head off, Lor, it’s just me,” she said. “And I know you didn’t think you were going anywhere without me,” she said, a hint of teasing tone in her voice as she gave him a pointed look. 

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Do n o t look at her for too long for her e y e s are enough to make you fall for her instantly

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                                 i just want to hear you say it.

               i need you to say it out loud - —                                 tell me I make you PROUD.

                                          i just want to hear you say it - —                               say it a little louder, please.

                         TELL ME YOU'RE PROUD OF ME.