5th Post

Hodge has flashbacks of death and blood to start off this reading. In the weapon room, Jace and Alec are working on weapons. Clary learns the defintion of magic, "a dark and elemental force". They don't use magic. Jace agrees to go home with Clary. Alec's father and Jace's father were parabatai, "warriors who fight together-who are closer than brothers." Jace and Clary go to her apartment, and Clary insists on seeing her room. An unusually huge man with ax in his "dead-white hand" comes through the door. He also had ripped and dirty clothes. They kill this creature, which is a stele. They talk to Madame Dorothea. Madame Dorothea knows about the Clave, and she tells Clary to forget about her mother.

I like this reading because it got intense again. My favorite part of this reading was the fight between the stele and Clary and Jace. It was very upbeat, intense, and exciting. I definitely think that they should stay away from Clary's old apartment for good now though. This is because every time she goes back, she gets attacked by some mythical being. It's not like I don't like the intenseneess of the fights, but for her sake she should stay away. The part where they went to talk to Madame Dorothea puzzled me because I thought that they said earlier in the book that she didn't use real magic or whatever. I guess not though becuase they do end up talking to her and it surprised me that she knew about the Clave and Jace. I am looking forward to see how the talk with Madame Dorothea goes and the rest of the book.