Last filler chapter! Yay! Also, I have a question for you guys at the end of this chapter.
Tessa stood in her room, holding the Herondale dagger in her hands. Magnus had returned it to them a day after they got the letter from him. She was hoping that it would help find Will if she changed into him, as Magnus had suggested a few days before. She tightened her grip on the dagger and closed her eyes. If it worked, they would know where Will was and if he was alright.
After a few minutes of concentrating, she could feel Will's presence there, but it was like looking through a window. She reached for it, but it seemed to be just inches away from her fingers.
Sighing, she opened her eyes again and dropped the dagger onto her bed. It was the third time she had tried that day, with the same result. Whoever took Will didn't want him to be found.
After she had put the dagger back in Will's room, she followed the sound of sad violin music to Jem's room and knocked on the door. He opened it a few seconds later and she stepped inside.
"Did you try changing into Will?" Jem asked her.
"I did, three times. Each time was the same. Someone doesn't want him to be found."
Jem nodded and put his violin back in its case. "There must be something we can do to find him. Some spell or rune. He can't have just disappeared."
"We'll find him," Tessa said, taking his hand and gently squeezing it. "I know we will."
After two weeks of looking, they hadn't found anything to help them find Will. Magnus tried tracking spells, Jem tried runes, and Tessa tried changing into him, but nothing worked. They were beginning to get desperate. In a week, it would be three months since Will went missing, and the Clave was getting annoyed with Jem's constant pleas to help.
Multiple people had insisted that Will was dead, and Jem had gotten angry and showed them how his parabatai rune was still black, not faded as it would be if Will was dead. When Gabriel said that Will had gotten tired of them and had run away to another country, Gideon and Henry had had to pull Jem off of him before he could do more than break Gabriel's nose.
Tessa was shocked to see that sort of behavior from Jem. She had always known him to be calm and peaceful, but when his best friend was missing, he changed drastically and became angry and violent.
Cecily had changed, too. She barely came out of her room and only answered their questions with short, curt answers. Charlotte tried to get her to talk, but she refused to speak more than three words at a time.
Charlotte acted like a mother hen who has lost one of her chicks. She wanted to go out and help look for weeks, but Henry finally convinced her to stay home and run the Institute.
For weeks, everyone worried.
Then Consul Wayland came to visit.
Okay, question time. I've seen a lot of people do this and I need your opinion. Should I do responses to reviews before every chapter? Also, does anyone else have days where they just can't type and make so many typos? This'll be updated by Wednesday.