How It All Goes Down
The Cuckoo in the Nest
- Simon and Clary dig through Luke's fridge for food. Everything is expired, so Luke orders a pizza.
- They chow on pizza and talk about Clary's mom, Jace, the Clave, and Maia.
- Clary wonders if she should get some Marks to show that she's a Shadowhunter.
- Luke discourages it, because she hasn't had necessary training, but he does think she needs a stele.
- He gives her his mother's stele, a "gleaming wandlike instrument" (1.4.62). Wandlike? If it looks like a wand, and does spells like a wand, it's a duck. We mean wand.
- Over at the Institute, Alec tells Jace to head to the library again.
- Jace goes to the library, where the Inquisitor is waiting for him.
- Jace, of course, argues with her, unable to conceal his distaste for authority.
- She insists on calling him Jonathan Morganstern, which he hates, because it's a much less cooler name than Jace Wayland.
- The Inquisitor says she will be sending Jace to the prisons of the Silent City.
- That's one scary place. For once, Jace doesn't protest.
- Back at Luke's house, the doorbell rings.
- It's Maia, and Clary is instantly jealous of her.
- When Maia asks if she and Simon are brother and sister, Simon says that Clary is his girlfriend.
- Maia says she'll keep an eye out for anything weird, and she leaves.
- Because it's late, Clary says that Simon can spend the night with her… in her bedroom. Ooh la la.