Cassandra Clare shares April/May ‘Clockwork Prince’ teaser

The countdown to the release of “Clockwork Prince,” the second installment of “The Infernal Devices,” has began and with that comes monthly teasers that tend to leave Cassandra Clare’s fans on the edge of their seats rather than satisified.

In April/May’s teaser we are introduced to a new character, someone we don’t know yet we kind of do know.

The door to the training room opened. Tessa and Sophie turned as Gabriel Lightwood strode into the room, followed by a boy she had not met. Where Gabriel was slender and darker-haired, the other boy was muscular, with thick, sandy-blond hair. They were both dressed in gear, with expensive-looking dark gloves studded with metal across the knuckles. Each wore silver bands around each wrist — knife sheaths, Tessa knew — and had the same elaborate, pale white pattern of runes woven into the sleeves of their gear. It was clear not just from the similarity of their clothes but the shape of their faces and the pale, luminous green of their eyes that they were related, so Tessa was not in the least surprised when Gabriel said, in his abrupt manner:

“Well, we’re here as we said we would be. James, I assume you remember my brother, Gideon. Miss Gray, Miss Collins —”

“Pleased to make your acquaintance,” Gideon muttered, meeting neither of their gazes with his. Bad moods seemed to run in the family, Tessa thought, remembering that Will had said that next to his brother, Gabriel seemed a sweetheart.

What do you think? Is Gideon everything Gabriel had made him out to be in “Clockwork Angel?” Anyone else think that Gideon is going to play a hand in something going down in “Clockwork Prince,” seeing as Clare decided to post this as a teaser?

Countdown to “Clockwork Prince:” 225 days.