Nothing but Shadows

At Shadowhunter Academy, Simon presses a lecturer on why the parabatai bond matters so much, and gets an answer in the form of a story: how young James Herondale and Matthew Fairchild, an unlikely pair from very different corners of Shadowhunter society, became parabatai against expectation. Told as history rather than firsthand adventure, it's a Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy entry about the friendship that will define the next generation of Herondales.