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Learn About Loss is the third short story in Ghosts of the Shadow Market, co-written by Cassandra Clare and Kelly Link.

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In a small town lost to despair, a dark carnival of a market appears. Faeries and warlocks we know converge, and the fate that will one day produce Kit Herondale is sealed.[1]

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SPOILERS AHEAD!
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Chattanooga, 1936

On 23 October, posters for Mysterious Merchants' Bazaar of the Bizarre appear on every street. Two days later, on Saturday, at least half the people who lived in the city turn up at the Bazaar. Strange things begin to happen to people who visit the bazaar, it being not only a carnival but also a Shadow Market. Sister Emilia and Brother Zachariah Portal to investigate it and to retrieve a piece of adamas from there.

When exploring the Market, Sister Emilia and Brother Zachariah see Roland the Astonishing performing with a faerie woman and a baby. Afterward, they run into Bill Doyle who is looking for his mother. He tells them that he has gained the ability to see the Shadow World after going through the Maze of Mirrors. The Shadowhunters proceed to encounter Belial in the heart of the maze. They retrieve the adamas mask from him and he informs Brother Zachariah of a branch of the Herondale family that is in danger. He offers either a cure for Brother Zachariah or more information on the Herondales. Brother Zachariah says the Carstairs family owes the Herondales a debt and asks for more information.

When Belial has told him all he is willing to tell, Brother Zachariah abruptly leaves the maze, saying something about Roland. Sister Emilia makes a deal with Belial, asking him to give Brother Zachariah and Will Herondale time together. In exchange for this, she says that she will not spend time forging a blade strong enough to destroy him. Amused, Belial agrees.

When Sister Emilia steps out of the maze, she realizes that the carnival is deserted, and all the stalls have vanished. Brother Zachariah had recognized Roland and his family as the Herondales that Belial had been talking about but he was too late, they had already fled. He informs Sister Emilia that she has passed her test and, exhausted, she lies down to sleep with Brother Zachariah keeping watch. However, he finds himself—a younger version of himself—in Shanghai with young Will. He realizes what deal Sister Emilia has made but, determined not to waste the time he has, he chooses to explore Shanghai with Will instead.

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Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunter Chronicles
The Mortal Instruments
City of Bones City of Ashes City of Glass
City of Fallen Angels City of Lost Souls City of Heavenly Fire
The Infernal Devices The Dark Artifices
Clockwork Angel Lady Midnight
Clockwork Prince Lord of Shadows
Clockwork Princess Queen of Air and Darkness
The Last Hours The Wicked Powers
Chain of Gold The Last King of Faerie
Chain of Iron The Last Prince of Hell
Chain of Thorns The Last Shadowhunter
The Eldest Curses
The Red Scrolls of Magic The Lost Book of the White The Black Volume of the Dead
The Bane Chronicles
What Really Happened in Peru Saving Raphael Santiago
The Runaway Queen The Fall of the Hotel Dumort
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything
The Midnight Heir The Last Stand of the New York Institute
The Rise of the Hotel Dumort The Course of True Love (And First Dates)
The Voicemail of Magnus Bane
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy Pale Kings and Princes
The Lost Herondale Bitter of Tongue
The Whitechapel Fiend The Fiery Trial
Nothing but Shadows Born to Endless Night
The Evil We Love Angels Twice Descending
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
Cast Long Shadows Son of the Dawn
Every Exquisite Thing The Land I Lost
Learn About Loss Through Blood, Through Fire
A Deeper Love The Lost World
The Wicked Ones Forever Fallen
Companion books
Secrets of Blackthorn Hall
Better in Black: Tales of Romance
The Shadowhunter's Codex
A Long Conversation
An Illustrated History of Notable Shadowhunters & Denizens of Downworld
All the Stories are True: Classics Reimagined in the World of the Shadowhunters
Adaptations
The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novels
The Official Mortal Instruments Coloring Book
The Infernal Devices: Manga Series
City of Bones: The Graphic Novel
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
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