The Good Storm[3] is an upcoming short story featured in the compilation book Better in Black, a limited edition from Seasons of Shadowhunters, set for release in 2025.[1]
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- The story is set in Paris in 1879[4] and follows Will Herondale and Tessa Gray as they explore the city during their early days of marriage.
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The suite itself was otherwise lovely, all dark and light blues, with velvet curtains and a gilded four-poster bed. Tessa was not yet used to sleeping in the same bed as Will, and every night, when they curled up together, she felt as if she were getting away with something, some act of blissful naughtiness that would certainly land them in trouble if they were found out. “We are married, Tessa,” Will would laugh, nuzzling at her unbound hair, “the Angel Raziel himself approves of our union.”
But Tessa still blushed and hid her face, especially when Will did certain things — not that she wanted him to stop doing those things. She was very enthusiastic about them. Which was fortunate, since Will would have spent all their time in bed if left to his own devices. Tessa, however, was determined to see Paris properly. No matter how late into the night they had been awake, she would rise in the morning and, giggling, shake a groggy Will awake, forcing coffee on him until he was ready to follow her — clutching her maps and Baedeker Guide To Paris — out into the sunlit streets.
Whereupon Will would usually declaim something dramatic. “Let me be taken, let me be put to death; I am content, so thou wilt have it so!” he would announce, throwing up his arms.
“You can quote Romeo and Juliet all you want,” Tessa would say, taking his arm and tucking her own through it. “We’re still going to the Louvre.”