When Magnus picks up Alec 's witchlight in City of Lost Souls , it "shone and flickered with a
strangely colored light" and as he held it with Alec it "flared up in colors of rose, blue and
green." This, as indicated by Alec, should not have happened for anyone but a
Shadowhunter . This leaving readers confused and wondering as to what explanation there
was to this occurrence and what it could have possibly meant.