"We are, or we wouldn't feel each other. I just think it might be ... I don't know. Slightly different realities. Things like that happen here. It's not enough that you're not still Jace and I'm not still me, or we wouldn't be bonded." Alec shook his head. "I'm fine. It's been ... I couldn't feel anything but I could feel where you weren't. Like always reaching for you but never finding you. Magnus helped dull it until you showed up, but I still felt it."

Alec shrugged. "Not the air, usually. And not all the city events are mandatory. Some are." Alec looked just to the left of Jace. "You don't have to sleep with someone you contract with. Most people do - it makes quota easier. But you don't have to. Ragnor is contracted with Magnus and he doesn't. Izzy too." He didn't answer the second part.

Alec saw that pale tension. "I don't know. You never know what they'll pick. Some people, it outs that they're not human. Some people get their histories plastered on the network. I-" Alec stopped and then sighed, since Jace obviously knew if he was somehow dating Magnus at home. He wondered who else Magnus was dating there. "It told everyone I was attracted to men when I hadn't told anyone that before. Not out loud, Izzy had figured it out once. You can't really know what it'll pick up on or say."