The differences between Luke and Alec were glaringly clear right then. Alec's point of view was still strictly regimented in that he saw packs as packs of wolves and not packs of people that Luke cared for. He couldn't see people like himself or Hild or Reid as part of a pack because they were wolves or vampires or warlocks. He had yet to break himself of the thought that everyone had to belong to a specific group and deviating from that just didn't happen.

"So, you consider mundanes and other Downworlders part of your pack?" Alec asked, not sounding judgmental or accusatory. If anything, he sounded curious and interested. He didn't know if he could ever see anyone the way he saw other Shadowhunters, though. They were just too valued, too trusted to allow anyone not of angelic blood and birth into their ranks.