Liliana - Is immortal

  “Oh, please,” Jace scoffed. “You’re, what, maybe a year or two older than me? You haven’t had a very long time to struggle.”

  “You’re off,” Liliana whispered, “by about a hundred years.”

  Jace opened his mouth to deny the possibility, and then froze at the expression on her face. “How?” he demanded in a hoarse whisper. “Even archmages age, and you’re no archmage!”

  “Someone made me a better offer.” Her lips twisted in a faint, self-mocking grin.

  And with that, Jace knew. “You made a deal with something,” Jace breathed, shaken to the core of being. “Damn, Liliana, I’ve done some stupid things in my life, but you … !” He shook his head. “A demon?” he asked, remembering her reaction on Grixis.

  “Four of them,” she told him. “Four demons, four deals. Jace, you can’t imagine what they offered in …” She consciously unclenched her fists, which had risen of their own accord as she spoke. “It doesn’t matter,” she said. “Who they were, why I did it. The point is, I was young, I was stupid, and I did it.”

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Agents of Artifice, Chapter 30