Author's Message of City Of Ashes

           In Cassandra Clare's series, "The Mortal Instruments" in book two, City of Ashes; Alec Lightwood a Shadowhunter is gay. He is in a so called, "relationship" with a warlock who is Magnus Bane. He is afraid to come out of the closet, because the Clave, the society that keeps track of Shadowhunters shuns queer Shadowhunters. Alec is afraid to come out to his parents for this reason. However, when Clary discovers the fact that she can draw runes that are not in the Grey Book, she draws a rune called; "Fearless." This rune allows the bearer to be fearless in times of fear. Such as fighting a greater demon, or coming out of the closet. From page 286 Alec bears the Fearless rune. Thus which makes him fearless. Fearless enough to come out to his parents. When Alec tells attempts to tell his parents, he could have said something else but, he tried to say that he was gay. His parents kept trying to tell him it wasn't important but it was. A quote from the book showing this is, "This is important, you see I'm not just seeing anyone, I'm seeing a Downworlder. Not any Downworlder, but a war-" This shows that Alec had enough confidence in himself to say this. What the author is trying to convey is that, you must have enough confidence in yourself to say what you need to say. So that you can let others know. Know what's going on with you. Your issues. This is what Cassandra Clare was possibly trying to convey.