None of us know how the magic here works, even someone with my background - I've come up short, which implies this is more powerful than anything we've ever had to deal with in Brooklyn.

[Magnus isn't a fool, he knows what Alec's family means to him and what the institute means to him. The lack thereof was going to be a point of contention, plain and simple.]

I suppose all you can do is settle in for the time in which you're around. Maybe you'll be one of the lucky few to return rather than be stuck here but for the time being my own place of residence is, of course, open to you.