She came over to the bed and sat down beside Clary. She stretched her arms out, and her electrum bracelets with their rune charms jingled musically. She knew that technically she had broken no Laws, but she also knew the Clave was furious at her.
Now it was out, and it had rocked the Clave. Clary knew they wanted to punish her, if only because her choice had had such disastrous consequences. In some way she wished they would punish her.
Break her bones, pull her fingernails out, let the Silent Brothers root through her brain with their bladed thoughts. It would have helped her guilt over having left Jace behind on that rooftop, even though Isabelle and the others had told her a hundred times she was being ridiculous—that they had all thought he was perfectly safe there, and that if Clary had stayed, she would probably now be missing too.
Church was doing what he often did when dropped—lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners. But then Isabelle swept her black hair aside, glaring, and Clary realized she was the one being told off, not the cat.
She never spoke of Jace as being dead or even gone—she and Alec refused to entertain the possibility. And Isabelle had never reproached Clary once for keeping such an enormous secret. Throughout everything, in fact, Isabelle had been her staunchest defender. She had waited through endless Council interrogations, shooting dagger glances at anyone who dared look at Clary sideways. Clary had been astonished. She and Isabelle had never been enormously close, both of them being the sort of girls who were more comfortable with boys than other female companionship.
Clary was as bewildered as she was grateful. For the past two weeks she and Alec had been exhausted and gray-faced from sixteen-hour patrols and searches. When Clary had found out she was banned from patrolling or searching for Jace in any way until the Council decided what to do about the fact that she had brought him back from the dead, she had kicked a hole in her bedroom door.
Magnus was still trying to track Jace, though no tracking had yet worked. The bell had been a gift from the Seelie Queen. The bell was meant to signal the Seelie Queen that Clary wanted her help. Clary had found her hand wandering to it more and more often as the days dragged on with no sign of Jace.
The only thing that stopped Clary was the knowledge that the Seelie Queen never gave anything without the expectation of something terrible in return. Before Clary could reply to Isabelle, the door opened. All the black made his pale skin look paler, his crystal-blue eyes bluer.
His mouth was set in a thin line. It was Isabelle who spoke. At another time it would have been comical—Alec was very tall, with long legs like a dancer, and the way he folded himself awkwardly around the chair made it look like dollhouse furniture. Luke, who as the representative of the werewolves on the Council had been present for the verdict, had promised to call Jocelyn as soon as the meeting ended, but Clary reached for her phone anyway; the prospect of giving her mother good news for a change was too tempting.
With a sudden sense of foreboding, Clary put her phone back down on the bed. Clary shivered. The wardings over Wrangel Island were smashed through yesterday. They could be bypassed by demons but not easily, and kept out the vast majority of them, preventing the world from being flooded by a massive demon invasion.
She remembered something that Jace had said to her, what felt like years ago: There used to be only small demon invasions into this world, easily contained. But even in my lifetime more and more of them have spilled in through the wardings. That was a long shot, anyway. More searching? More patrolling? The specially commissioned groups brought over from Idris are going to be sent home.
The situation with the wards is taking priority now. Alec took a breath and put his hands up to cover his face. The eye Mark of the Shadowhunters decorated the back of his right hand. Jace as well, but primarily Sebastian. He destroyed the wards of Alicante. They expect Sebastian to make the next move. If that. They expect us to go back to normal life. A normal life without Jace? Did he even come back from Idris for the meeting? I was reading about the ceremony in the Codex. I know being parabatai ties the two of you together.
You can sense things about Jace. I can feel that much. Alec looked toward the windows, the sheeting gray rain. There are other ways. He sounded hesitant. You would do anything to save him, whatever it cost you, whatever you might owe to Hell or Heaven, would you not? Alec looked at his sister darkly. The Council questioned them extensively. A favor, though, is different. She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. It was like always wanting a puppy for a pet and being handed a hellhound instead.
Alec shook his head. None of them really looked at Isabelle, Alec, or Clary with much curiosity. I was just prepping to be confused when Heavenly Fire comes out. Thank you so much for writing these recaps! Love this blog! Plus some of these little comments you guys put in there just make me laugh and smile and make these summaries fun to read.
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As Alec, Magnus, Simon, and Isabelle wheedle and bargain with Seelies, demons, and the merciless Iron Sisters to try to save Jace, Clary plays a dangerous game of her own.
Or is he truly lost? Posted by Sana. Comments: Terri S. When Clary has stolen the rings, however, she decides not to give them to the Queen. Instead, she gives one to Simon to communicate with him, and goes to join Jace and Sebastian. Clary feeds Simon information about their whereabouts, and also does her best to see if she can turn Jace from Sebastian. Meanwhile, Sebastian insists that he and Jace are doing good rather than evil. He tells Clary that he and Jace are trying to shake things up because the Shadowhunters have become lazy and set in their ways.
Sebastian says he and Jace are trying to lure demons onto Earth in order to destroy them like Shadowhunters are supposed to do. Simon, bearing the Mark of Cain, becomes the one to call down Raziel. Simon readily agrees. Sebastian, meanwhile, has a version of the Mortal Cup fashioned out of adamas by Sister Magdalene of the Iron Sisters.
He then has Jace kill Magdalene to cover their tracks, but not before Magdalene stabs Jace and damages the rune that binds him to Sebastian. During this time, Jace, now himself again temporarily, tells Clary all about the true evil plans he and Sebastian have. The mortal cup is to be filled with the demon blood of Lilith, to create an army of Dark Shadowhunters to take over the world.
Sebastian reseals the bonding rune upon discovery of its damaging. He forces Clary to attend a ceremony where some forty disenchanted Shadowhunters drink demonic blood.
It is then that Simon, Isabelle, Magnus, Alec, and others arrive to do battle. With Glorious in hand, Clary stabs Jace, which breaks the bond between him and Sebastian. Jace is treated and recovers. He vows to kill Sebastian.
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