#from bookcon

the final project is supposed to cover the kind of work you want to do when you leave the Scholomance. You’re an adult Shadowhunter. Solving crimes using magic seems like something you could do. Attempting interdimensional travel to a hell world does not. I know your brother Julian visited that other world, but there were extenuating circumstances involved that will never be replicated.” 

“I said it was theoretical—” 

“If you opened a door to hell in your dorm room and a beast came through and ate you, that wouldn’t be theoretical.” 

“No, I would call that empirical evidence. But I’m not doing that.” 

Catarina templed her hands beneath her chin. “I believe you,” she said. “And I don’t think you actually want to go to Thule, even if a version of Livvy is alive there. I think you turned in a final project you knew couldn’t possibly pass on purpose.”