"Yeah. That's easiest. Magnus and Ragnor are from entirely different realities and if you spend five minutes in a room with them, you'd never know it," Alec said dryly.

"I know," Alec said. "I'm not expecting you to to just drop in and love it. No one does. I didn't either. I still don't. Most people hate the rules, the system." He shrugged uneasily. "The reasons I like it aren't really going to help you out, Jace."

Alec straightened from where he leaned against the wall, more for something to do than anything else. "Yeah. It's worse in the Down. In the Up it's just a little ... it'll just turn you on a little if you're out in it for too long. It won't eat through your clothes." He wondered how Jace had been about to finish that sentence, but at the same time he didn't want to know, because it wasn't his right to know, and he was better off not.