Sweeping thoughts of nightmares from his mind, Jace went to join them. They were calling him from the corridor, Alec and Isabelle, impatient, eager for the hunt and the kill. The sound of his name startled him out of his reverie. Stripped of their magic, the marks on his body were only marks, after all, of no more power than the scars on his wrists and chest, or the deep scar just over his heart where his father's killer had stabbed him when he was ten years old. Marks that no human eye could see-and he was glad, thinking of the girl in his dream, the way she had looked at him, as if he were no different than she was. Jace shrugged on his jacket, checked his weaponry, ink-Marked hands skating lightly over cloth and metal. There had been reports of dark activity in a nightclub downtown, human bodies found limp and drained as the sun came up. Perhaps there would be something about it in one of his books.īut there was no time now. He would have to ask Hodge about runes for nightmare protection it in the morning. It was frightening to feel so vulnerable, more frightening than any demon.
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He had woken up shivering, cold as if his skin had been strippedĪway. But how could a human girl see through his glamour?
She had looked at him with more than awareness there had been recognition in her eyes, as if he were familiar to her. In the dream, he had not been invisible to her. Jace thought of the girl in his dream, the one with the braided scarlet hair. Swift as the wind, strong as the earth, silent as the forest, invisible as water. Four parallel claw marks that ran from his breastbone to his shoulder, where his father had inked the runes that would make him fast and strong, and hide him from mundane eyes. He pulled aside his shirt now and looked at the scar where that first demon had clawed him. It would be years later that Jace would see a demon for the first time, and by then his father had already been dead for several years. Jace gazed at his father's scar in wonder. I have a scar here from a demon that bled acid the color of sapphires." Some bleed thin blood like green poison, and some bleed silver or black. "But they bleed as red as men do when you kill them." "Monsters," his father had said, with distaste. Warlocks with their cat's-eyes and pointed ears, sometimes a forked tail protruding from the hem of an elegant velvet coat. Lycanthropes with their too-sharp teeth and their smell of wolf.
Vampires in their finery, faces dead white as paper. Jace had only seen them before in his father's instructional manuals. The hard pavement was filthy, the buildings crowding too close together, but the lights were bright and beautiful. That winter his father took him to Manhattan for the first time. He was almost ten years old and had never seen a city. That night Jace dreamed of cities made of gold and blood, of tall bone towers sharp as splinters. "Now you are a man," his father had said. The runes spelled out his true name, and other things besides. His father had cut the marks into his skin with a stele made from carved ivory. Alec had been thirteen, and that was very young. Most boys got their first Marks when they were fifteen. It was their own fault they were not stronger. Some of the other young people in the Clave didn't like the disfiguring black letters, didn't like the burning pain of the stele where it cut into the skin, didn't like the nightmares that came when runes too powerful were inked into the flesh of someone unready. Jace Wayland had always been proud of them. The marks on his skin told the story of his life. It made him more mysterious and a mysterious character is always fun. I had wanted to tell some of the story from Jace's point of view, but once I got further into the book I realized it would be better if we mainly saw him from Clary's perspective. 6.5 A Letter from the Faerie Court to the Los Angeles InstituteĬity of Bones Original prologue source: CoB "Deleted Scenes" on the website CC's note: This was the original prologue for City of Bones.5.3 Clary and Simon at the Seelie Court 2.0.5.2 Clary and Simon at the Seelie Court.3.13 Luke and Valentine deleted excerpt.3.3 Simon's alternate arrival in Alicante.3.1 A Dark Transformation / Becoming Sebastian Verlac.
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