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Chapter 5: Clave and Covenant

Last week we had left off, Jace was bringing her to the Institute. Clary has been in the infirmary for three days. There was bit foreshadowing, Clary saw visions in her sleep. “Luke, standing atop a pile of bones. Jace with white feathered wings sprouting out of his back… Simon with crosses burned into the palms of his hands” (57). She finally woke to find Isabelle, waiting.

Isabelle left to tell Hodge that Clary didn’t die in her sleep. Clary roams the Institute and is lured by a piano’s tune to where Jace is playing. (For those of you who have read Clockwork Angel, doesn’t this sound a bit like how Tessa is introduced to Jem.) Jace takes her to the library, *squeal*, where Hodge is waiting.

While Jace and Alec, who is very rude (“she’s a Mundie, Hodge, and a little kid, at that” (68).), are waiting in the weapon’s room, Clary tells Hodge how all of this started. Clary is still a bit hurt by Luke, who she had just called. Luke told her he basically had nothing to do with her.

A small history lesson is taught, where Valentine is described in more detail than before and the Accords are spoke of. Hodge gives Clary permission to go to her house with Jace and go through Jocelyn’s things. Clary leaves him; Hodge writes a letter to the Silent Brothers to tell them the situation.

Jace agrees to go with Clary and they both are off.

Chapter 6: Forsaken

Clary and Jace leave the Institute to go to her house. On the train, two girls are staring at Jace, who even admits to Clary that, “I am stunningly attractive” (86). That’s a rolling-eye moment, if I’ve ever seen one. They go to her house.

The house is different than the last time they have left it. There is the smell of blood in the air, the refrigerator gone, and the house ransacked.

Jace is easily bored and wants to just go back. Clary wants to thoroughly search the house, especially her room. In her room is a Forsaken, “an enormous man, big around as an oak tree, a broad-bladed axe clutched in one gigantic dead-white hand” (90). Jace fights the thing, while Clary stands off to the side and watches. Only when Jace breaks his arm, does she come and help.

Jace finishes off the beast and wants to search the rest of the place in case there were more. Madame Dorothea leaves her apartment with a “’I wouldn’t do that if I were you’” (95). Jace and Clary are both shocked to find that Madame Dorothea may not be all that she appears.

Dorothea admits that she knows about the Shadowhunter’s world. Jace doesn’t seem too happy about the idea. Madame Dorothea then invites the two in her apartment.

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