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'''Jace''': ''All right?'' By which I take it you mean we survived?
'''Simon''': Well...
'''Jace''': Faeries are the offspring of [[Villain Sue|angels and demons]], with the beauty of angels and the viciousness of demons. A [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]] might attack you, if you entered its domain, but a faerie could make you dance until you died with your legs ground down into stumps, trick you into going for a midnight swim and drag you screaming underwater until your lungs burst, fill your eyes with faerie dust until you gouged them out at the roots--
'''Clary''': Jace! Shut up. Jesus. That's enough.
'''Jace''': Look, it's easy to outsmart a [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolf]] or [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]]. They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and they're as cunning as snakes. They [[Can Not Tell a Lie|can't lie]], but they love to engage in creative truth-telling. They'll find out whatever it is you want most in the world and give it to you -- with a sting in the tail of the gift that will make you regret you ever wanted it in the first place. They're not about helping people. More harm disguised as help. }}
* The Fairy Servants in ''[[Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell]]'', particularly "The Gentleman With Thistledown Hair." A footnote in the book explains that there are two faculties in both men and fairies: a faculty of reason and a faculty of magic. Men possess a greater share of reason than magic, and the fairies are the exact opposite. The book also describes the three classes of supernatural beings—angels, demons and fairies—as being "[[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|eternally good]]", "[[Exclusively Evil|infernally wicked]]" and "[[This Guy Seems Legit|morally suspect]]" in that order.
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