Luke and Magnus sit around in their cell talking a lot and saying nothing.  There’s not much to report from this conversation, it’s all stuff we’ve heard before, except: “You hope Raphael survives this?” Luke said. “Come on—how many people has he killed?” Magnus turned cold eyes on him. “Who among us has bloodless hands?…

As Clary and Jace are exploring their chosen part of the tunnels, Clary randomly starts bemoaning the fact that she’s not normal, because apparently she always wanted to be.  Except I pretty well remember the very first chapter of City of Bones where she went to a night club expressly because she was sad about…

Today we check in with the prisoners that Jonathan captured.  They’re doing normal prisoner things like yanking on chains and trying to look out windows.  Turns out Magnus is the only one chained to the floor, Jocelyn isn’t with them, and outside the windows all they can see is fog. It turns out to be…

Clary and her group walk in silence over to the hell portal.  Since “silence” means they can’t talk about the plot, Clary steps in and thinks about the plot instead.  Because heaven forbid we look forward. The Queen takes them to a chamber with three paths leading out, two nice looking and one covered in…

The maelstrom inside the Portal was almost a relief. Clary went last through the shining doorway, after the other four had stepped through, and she let the cold darkness take her like water pulling her down and under, stealing the breath from her lungs, making her forget everything but the clamor and the falling. …that…sounds…