I haven’t got
much in the way of substantive cut scenes from City of Heavenly Fire. Most
things were rewritten rather than removed. But here’s a bit of Sebastian’s
death scene that didn’t make it in.
“We
forgive you,” Jocelyn said. She was still crying, in the same soundless
terrible way, just as she had every year on Jonathan’s birthday when she had
held the box with his initials on it and wept.
“No,”
he said. “There’s no forgiveness for what I did. I know where I will burn when
I die.”
“Heaven
does not forgive, but mothers do,” said Jocelyn. “When you were a baby inside
me, I dreamed of everything for you. That you would be handsome and strong and
good. That I would sing to you and love you and take care of you.” She gripped
his hand tightly. “Maybe not in this world, but in another, I believe that was
the truth.”
“Don’t
forgive me,” he whispered. “Hate me. Rejoice that I’m dead. After all I have
done, the last thing I would wish to bring to you was more grief.”
“Jonathan,”
Clary whispered.
His
eyes moved toward her. “And sisters,” he said. “Do sisters forgive?”
