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  choppedtoadpersoncowboy said:Does a parabatai bond weaken when the respective people keep secrets from one another? Is it fair to say that of the two share everything, the bond is stronger? In this case, Matthew has kept a huge secret from James. Does that affect their bond?

  I would say that it does weaken it to an extent — it depends on what the secret is because it is okay to have some secrets that are personal. But if the secret is destructive to the relationship between the two parabatai, that can weaken the bond. We’ve seen bonds weakened in the past, like the one between Valentine and Luke (before it was severed by Luke becoming a werewolf). Parabatai can drift apart, or become enemies — we’ve seen it — and all that weakens, but does not destroy, the  bond.

  04/05/20

• Cordelia

  thecordeliacarstairs said:In one of your recent answers about Matthew you said that people

   understandably get tired of having an unrequited crush on someone. Can we expect Cordelia to at least try to get over James (even though it’s not really unrequited but she doesn’t know that)?
  

  I would say yes, we can definitely expect that. And Cordelia’s definitely a go big or go home type.

  04/05/20

• ariana-n3 said:Hi Cassie! Does Sona know or is aware of everything

   Alastair has done for Elias/ to keep Cordelia from finding out? Also with him coming to London in COI will we get to find out how exactly she feels about Elias and his alcoholism? Thanks!
  

  Sona is somewhat aware. To her, it would be Alastair appropriately stepping up to help protect the family and help protect Cordelia. Sona knows Elias has a problem with alcohol, but she comes from a time period in which people believed that it was also something that shouldn’t be talked about, for everyone’s good, but should just be worked around and ignored. (There were quack cures, even things sold specifically to wives to put in their husband’s alcohol to make them stop drinking. They didn’t work. There was even a belief that “Alcoholism was caused by toxins.”)

  So yes, Sona is somewhat aware — she also took steps to keep Cordelia from finding out — but she’s deep in denial about many aspects of what Elias’ alcoholism has meant for his family, and we’ll see that when Elias returns.
  

  imabitchforjamesherondale said: Hi Cassie! I absolutely adored Chain of Gold. Will Cordelia start feeling disappointment and sadness towards her father’s return? What does she think about Elias right now?
  

  It depends on how he is when he returns, right? She’s already disappointed and sad that Elias has been an alcoholic all this time. She has been adjusting to a new vision of her father. So it very much depends on whether the Basilias has helped him, how he is now, how he thinks about how he was in the past, etc. Elias may not know about amends, but he certainly needs to make them.

  04/04/20