Looking at the clock she realises that it is already past 9, when did it get so late, looking back towards the mirror she frowns?
"Why do I bother getting dressed if it's this late" she huffs and goes to her bedroom window, she opens the shutters and realises just how dark it has gotten, mixing herbs really does make time fly.
"its fine, this is the perfect time to go out and grab the extra ingredients I need" leaving the shutters open she heads towards the entrance, picks up a wicker basket and goes out the house without shoes. After closing the door she looks around.
"Seems safe, I know Leon hates it when I wonder about at night, but I am always okay" she says with a quiet voice, closing her eyes and holding out her arm she casts a protection charm on herself, she also mutters something quietly and a small ball of light appears from her chest and hovers above her. Opening her eyes again she looks at the small ball of light, smiles and starts walking, the small light source staying in front and guiding her, keeping the monsters of the darkness as bay.
She walks down towards merlin's house and cuts in an alleyway just before she gets to the bailey, a small garden appears as she comes out of two more alleys, it's a small weeded place that not many people come too, there is a small pond with a little waterfall which comes from some rocks up ahead, she walks to a corner and kneels with her basket.
"This place really hasn't changed" she smiles sadly and she begins picking the right type of plants, she thinks back to her time when hollow bastion was radiant gardens.
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"Isa, Wait for me!" a small girl with short navy blue hair runs up to the older boy with light blue hair slightly spiked, wearing his usual blue jacket with a moon symbol on it, he stops running and turns to look at her, his blue eyes shining as he did, he admired the girl, and she did him, they were best friends after all. Isa smirked and waited till clary stopped in front of him, she bent down, out of breath, she then felt a hand of her head, and she looked up confused, as Isa ruffled her hair up.
"Why are you so loud, you will wake everyone up" he said calmly, with a hint of amusement in his eye, she looks at him annoyed and shakes his hand off.
"What do you mean, we are in a wide open place, I am not that loud, lea is worse than I am!" she walks with her hands behind her back, skipping in front of Isa. Clary remembers a time where the old man who runs the ramen shop just up ahead into town got really made at lea because he kept shouting about how tough he is in his shop, if she remembers correctly, the old man got Lea by the back of his shirt and tossed him out. Isa was so embarrassed, but she found the whole ideal very funny.
"Speaking of mega mouth himself, where is he, he told us to meet him here" Isa said looking up at the sky irritated, clary was looking towards the castle, that's where she lives now, its huge and daunting to look at, but looking from the castle over the town was a different story, she could see everything, she had tried to invite the boys up, but by Ansems orders the guards wouldn't let them in.
"Heyyy!" a voice bellows from the garden entrance, both clary and Isa turn to see the red head rushes over with a large grin on his face. He's running towards clary, but Isa steps in front of her and knocks lea on his spiky read head, he shouts and goes down.
"Ouch, what the hell kind of welcoming was that?" he glares at his so called friend and then looks to clary, his look softening just a tad.
"You going to let him treat me like that, Clary?" she looks down with a sorry look on her face, she couldn't hide her smile though, she looks towards Isa with an annoyed look, and he looks back at her and lets of a sigh.
"Fine, I am sorry, but you are late, and you are loud" lea takes Isa's outreached hand and helps him get up, he red head gins and rubs the back of his neck.
"It's fine, so you guys ready for today?" he asks excitedly, Isa and clary look at each other with a concerned look. Lea's ideas always gets them into trouble, Clary looks to him again and smiles.
"Sure, it's bound to be an adventure, right?" Isa still doesn't look convinced; he crosses his arms and closes his eyes, ready to hear what kind of idea Lea has come up with.
"Ok, so Clary is always telling us about what it's like in the castle, so today, we are all going to go up there, and Clary will give us the grand tour, isn't that right!" he finished with a dramatic hand gesture towards to castle then to Clary.
She blinked, confused, she never agreed to this, she has been told countless times that she wasn't aloud guests, and they both know this, she looks down and thinks, is this possible, will she be able to sneak them in?
"Um, I don't know about this, you guys know that Dilan and Aeleus are always keeping guard, I am not sure" she looks to Isa, he will be the one to shut this down, it would be cool, but she really doesn't think they will be able to.
"Sounds fun, right, Clary?" he turns to her with a calm tone, shocked by his answer as he usually doesn't like things to be complicate. Clary looks towards the huge gate and turn towards Lea, 'this might actually be fun, although if we get caught I know for a fact that I will be in so much trouble, but I want them to see my home, there are so many cool things about it' a determined look appears on her face and turns back to the guys
"Yeah, sure…sounds fun, but you guys are guys are going to have to listen to me and follow my orders ok" she was on her tip toes right up in their faces. She wanted to make sure they listened to her, she wanted this to go right.
