Chapter 9:
Sebastian ran out of the conference room, Celaena hot on his heels. He saw his brother and sister enter the elevator. He knew they were testing whether what the Stooges had said was true or not. He ran into another room, slamming and locking the door shut behind him. He ran across the room and out the door on the other side of the room. He was trying to lose the assassin that was after him. Why couldn't she try to kill Jace instead? It would be so much better if she did. It would also save him the trouble of having to do it himself. Perhaps he could convince her to kill Jace instead of him. First he would have to figure out why she was trying to kill him though.
He was in another hallway. He ran down it and turned a corner. Standing in front of him was Celaena.
"Why are you trying to kill me?" Sebastian asked as he dodged out of the way of her sword.
"You're trying to destroy the world. I won't let you do that," Celaena replied.
So that was why. He had suspected it was something along those lines.
"I'm not trying to destroy the world," Sebastian protested.
"Don't lie to me. I know what you're planning. I have sources close to the Faerie Queen who told me that you were conspiring with her to destroy the world," Celaena insisted.
"They must have been lying to you," Sebastian said, trying to maintain his innocence.
"My sources wouldn't lie to me," Celaena growled.
"OK, OK. Maybe they didn't lie to you. Maybe they were given wrong information which caused them to give you false information," Sebastian conceded.
"What do you mean?" Celaena asked, stopping her attack.
"I'm not trying to destroy the world," Sebastian said again. "I'm trying to stop Jace from destroying it."
"What do you mean?" Celaena asked, her eyes narrowing.
"Jace is trying to destroy the world. He has fooled the others into thinking that he's their friend, that he's trying to save the world, and that I'm trying to destroy it. I've been watching for a while now, trying to figure out when he would strike. I didn't know he was also working with the Faerie Queen. Now that you're here you can help me stop Jace," Sebastian inveigled.
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Clary and Jace returned to the conference room. They had tried the elevator three more times, and each time they ended up on the twenty-first floor, no matter which button they pushed.
"The Stooges are right. We are trapped on this floor," Jace said.
Magnus was just about to say something when a voice interrupted them.
"THIS IS THE POLICE! COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP WHERE THEY ARE VISIBLE!" someone said over a loud speaker. "IF YOU FAIL TO COOPERATE THE BUILDING WILL BE STORMED, AND ALL PERSONS WILL BE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY! REPEAT; COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP!"
"Come out with your hands up," Jace said.
Clary looked at him. "Jace, what are you doing?"
"They said to repeat, so I repeated," Jace replied.
"We need to find some way of keeping the police from getting on this floor," Magnus said. "If we really are trapped on this floor we need to make sure not to let anybody else get trapped. Especially, if they are mundies; they won't understand the shadow world."
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The Morgensterns mad,
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