Overture Downs Alone under a thousand souls

His words make her smile quiver and she feels her brows crease, even as she does her best to fight the unexpected sadness that seeps through her thoughts. That's what mom told me, too, she says quietly, and though this man is a stranger, he suddenly feels more like home than anyone else she has met so far.

Clary can almost imagine herself within the Stone of Easthollow - Valette nearby, leaning up against Steady's Stone as Clary had often caught her doing, and she wonders if her mother is doing that now, staring up at the same sky, and thinking the same thoughts. My uncle Murdock is up there, and my sister Keoni. And Steady, but I never met him. Mom said he was a fighter, so he must be up there, too. And though her heart is troubled, she smiles, because they would want her to.