Hello there descendants of mine, I'm Gideon

I'm Gabriel

And we're here today to talk to you about something very important to us: Frogs!

Now, I know what you're thinking "I know everything about frogs," well you see the thing is you don't. One time my daughter Anna tried to catch a frog and it completely ruined her dress, and you know who Cecily blames it on? Me! She blamed it on me!

You were encouraging her

I was not! I was simply suggesting she held one as Christopher was

Christopher wanted to discect it

I blame his stupidity entirely on Henry

Let's get back to the point and save your blaming people for another day shall we Gabriel?

Fine. Well, we don't know how far frogs have advanced over the last hundred or so years, we haven't had the opportunity of meeting one since our deaths! But we're pretty sure they're all manually controlled by the faries by now.

If so, we suggest you restrain all faries and find their source of power

Also - if possible - take out the enimy from the inside. Use an ally farie as a source of information, then attack when the time is right.

And if you don't have any Allies amoung the fae we suggest using your natural Lightwood charm to draw them in, as I did in 1876. Do you remember Mabeline Gabriel?

Distinctly, she was head over heals in love with me!

Nonsense, she couldn't take her eyes of me

If I remember rightly, you never even talked to her

I don't need to talk to her to woo her Gabriel. You need to learn from your big brother

Save it for another chapter, we were talking about frogs

Ah yes, the ones in Hyde park would constantly disrupt Sophie and I on our evening strolls.

You'd always walk too close to the water. Here's a tip future Lightwoods: NEVER walk too close to the water

Also never try to seduce a frog

You've tried?

Of course not! What do you take me for? It was my son Thomas who tried. He was awefully drunk and had a raging headache the next morning

Also: NEVER go drinking with Thomas Lightwood. Never go drinking with any Lightwood in fact.

Don't forget never go drinking in Hyde park, especially where the frogs lurk!

How exactly did that imbacil son of yours get the frog to sit still long enough to try and seduce it anyway?

I think he may have slaughtered it beforehand

Thrilling!

A word of warning to all you Lightwoods: never let a frog sit on your face, they are slimy and terrible for your complexion

Don't let them get in your hair either; I was washing out slime for weeks

I think these may have been mutant frogs Gabriel

Perhaps, but its still worth mentioning.

In that case I think I should warn you all that you should NEVER under ANY surcamstances follow a frog into its natural habitat unless you are certain it is a demon. The only thing worse then one from is an army of them!

I think that wraps it all up!

But I wanted to tell them about when you...

I don't think you do!

But I think they would really like to hear about...

No. They. Do. Not

... Okay...

Bye!