*****Sebastian******
We rode until nightfall. The air of the cold night swirled around me. It smells of snow and rain and possibility. I knew it. I just knew that I was close to them and that I will find them. I couldn't help the smile on my face for two days. That's how long we Been away from Madame Dorothea. She told us that we will cross ways if I just follow myself. Well it seems like what she said was right. I could actually feel myself getting closer and closer to my prize.
I had decided to head west. It was calling to me to go west. I was gonna follow all of Madame Dorothea's instructions But something was wrong. When Madame Dorothea went into that trance-like state she was speaking in a weird language and I heard her say Clary multiple times, and when she came to she took on a whole different attitude. She seemed more closed off and anxious. The only thing she just told me was to follow myself and then she pushed us out of her cottage. She's hiding something, but I have more important things to accomplish then wordy about some crabby woman.
We walked quickly out of the little town to our horses that we're eating grass close by. I barley knew where I was going. I was too preoccupied with my thoughts. Why did she act so strange? Well she is a strange woman if she has that kind of power and when she isn't The One. The one who is Kissed by Angels. But she seemed even stranger when she came out of that trance state, where her eyes mysteriously got misty and cloudy, like when you look at the sky and you know its gonna storm by the clouds.
"So what do we do know, your highness?" Seelie had asked when we safely got onto out horses.
The wind had blew into my hair, tousling and twisting it on top of my head and in my eyes. At that moment I had just knew where we would go.
"We're going west." I had said confidently.
********Clary POV********
I woke up for the second day in Jace's warm embrace. His warmth enveloped me in a cocoon of trust and safety that made me quickly snuggle against him and fall instantly asleep. That's not even the best part. The best part that during both times that I've slept with Jace he kissed me on the forehead and both cheeks and said "Goodnight " in the heartfelt, loving voice that made my heart ache and beat 10x faster. I would dream of walking into gardens I've made with my powers with Jace by my side. Then children come running up behind us to capture butterflies and bugs. In my dream there were always a different amount of kids in different genders. Sometimes all girls or all boys or a mixture. Most times the amount of children in the dream was more than 3. Only one was there one child. The sound. The sound in the dream was always muffled and unclear like my ears we're clogged with too much earwax or something. Then the dream would just vanish and I wake up.
"Mm morning." I said, stretching in the small tent.
Jace grumbled something and turned to his side.
"Jace, we got to get up. It's morning."
Jace cocked his head in my direction and opened one eye, "Just because its morning does not mean we have to get up." He grumbled and turned his head back to his previous position.
Ohhh, I forgot to tell you. Jace is not a morning person. I had to figure that out the hard way when we had to literally pull Jace out of the tent yesterday and I'm pretty sure we don't want that to happen today. But what exactly can I do to get him up. I thought for a minute when I came up with an idea.
I leaned over his sleepy face gently breathing on him. He made a sound of approval. I giggled a little. Then I quickly kissed him on the lips. This is the third time out lips have touched. That same spark of fire ignited in me. Jace made a sound of surprise, but almost immediately he started kissing me back. His arms wrapped around me. I shivered and moaned a little. I felt him smile against my lips as he pushed me down and the thin tent floor. Every time he kissed me there was always a ignited feeling rose inside of me.
He stopped kissing me and looked at me fondly.
"Why did you do that?" He chuckled.
"Because you wouldn't wake up!" I giggled.
"Then maybe I shouldn't wake up at all, or until you kiss me." He kissed my cheeks softly.
"Well if you're gonna not wake up then your gonna have to find someone else to kiss." I joked.
"There's no one I would want to kiss besides you." He smiled warmly at me.
I smiled, but then a thought came to me. Izzy and Simon are officially dating. Simon asked for her to be his girlfriend and Izzy said yes. Jace never asked for me to be his girlfriend so what am I to him. A concubine. A lover. A prostitute! The thought of being a prostitute made my stomach churn at the thought.
"What's wrong?" Jace's voice broke through my saddened thoughts.
"Nothing, Jace. I'm fine." I said unconvincingly.
His eyes narrowed, "Clary, by now I know your emotions more than I know my own. What's wrong?" He gently pushed my curls of hair away from my face.
I opened my mouth but quickly closed it. Should I tell him about what I just thought or try to keep it to myself. He'll probably think my thoughts were stupid.
"It's nothing really. We should go. The gang's probably waiting for us." I moved out from under Jace and went out of the tent without looking back at him.
It was bright and sunny outside but still a little chilly. There was a fire in the middle of our tiny camp with the rest of our gang circled around it.
"I thought I was gonna have to come and get you guys." Simon joked.
"I was trying to wake Jace up again. It's really hard." I chuckled.
Don't we all know it!" Alec chirped in.
"If you guys want to talk about me talk about me when I'm here." Jace emerged from the tent growing to his full height and stretching high and tall. His shirt lifted up so I can see is sculpted stomach. I shivered sightly.
"Well if you must know so badly we were talking about how is hell trying to get you to wake up." Magnus inquired.
"Well if you know how to do it then it shouldn't me that hard." Jace muttered and sat down next to Alec.
"What's for breakfast. I'm starving." I spoke up and sat next to Izzy.
"Ahh just some jerky and water. We have to conserve the other food we have, which isn't all that much until we find a town or a garden or something." Alec said rummaging through the pack to give me and Jace some food.
"That's okay." I voiced.
A thought hit me hard. If I could use my powers to grow flowers and plants could I use them to grow food like watermelons and carrots. Its worth a shot.
"Hey I got an idea guys!" I said excitedly.
Everyone looked at me, " What is it?"Izzy said.
"Well you guys know I can grow flowers with my powers right." I started but Simon finished.
"You think you can grow food with your powers too." Simon said in approval.
"Exactly!" I clapped my hands
"Well its worth a shot." Izzy smiled and clapped along with me.
"What should I grow?" I asked the group.
"Try something simple like a carrot." Jace said.
"Okay." I turned to an empty space behind me.
I realized that using my hands helps me channel the energy I need to help me do what I need to do. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes and thought about a carrot. Nice, crunchy, orange, carrot. I placed my hands on the ground my nails dug into the dirt. I concentrated so hard I actually felt the ground shake. I opened my eyes, I felt tired but in a good way.
"Okay." I breathed out, "I think I'm done."
"Let's see it then. My mouths already watering." Simon licked his lips.
I looked. There was a little sprout uprooting from the ground. That must be it. I grabbed it lightly an pulled if out. It was actually very easy. Now I use why. The carrot was really small like a baby's thumb.
"Well the whole ground shaking was a bite anticlimactic." Jace spoke after after moment of silence.
"Sorry, you guys. I guess I need more work on it." I frowned.
"It's okay. We can just go into a town and get some more food." Izzy patted my softly on the shoulder.
"We should probably get going now." Alec got up started taking down his tent.
I nodded to myself, threw the carrot away, and went to pack up the tent, but as always Jace beat me to it.
"How come you never let me do it?" I put my hands on my hips in defiance.
"Because Princess. It's a complicated trick to closing it." He said.
He hasn't called me Princess in a long time. Why is he calling me that now? Its probably because of what happen early.
I sigh softly and walked away feeling sad and ashamed.
"Why the long face?"Izzy asked.
I looked up, surprised that we were all done and ready to go.
"Ohhh it's just Jace is being... " I stopped.
"Jace is being Jace. He's complicated. That's the ways he is." Izzy finished.
I changed the subject, "Did you and Simon kiss before or after he asked you out."
Izzy thought about it for a minute, "Well I would have to say after cause Simon was way too shy, and I don't even count the times I've kissed him on the cheek when we were kids. So yeah after we went out. Why you ask? Did Jace do anything? "
"It's just that... Jace kissed me three times and he hasn't even ask for my hand or whatever. Does he always do this with girls?" I rushed out.
Izzy put her hand around my shoulders and hugged me sideways, "Clary I've never really had any girl friends because all they want is to get to Jace, but I know your not like that so I'll tell you this. Jace I a nice person. He's just umm unorganized. He does things differently from other people, but he means good. I can tell you that he sees you differently from all the other girls."
I smiled a little, "Thanks Izzy. Your like a sister to me."
"Me too." Izzy laughed.
"Come on girls. Its time to go." Simon called out.
"Let's go." Izzy smiled.
****** Sebastian POV********
I starred at the map I had in my hands for the 12th time now. I let out a frustrated groan and closed the map roughly. This is gonna be harder to find her, she got out of my grasp once. She's not gonna do it again.
"Seelie come here now." I said.
Seelie cautiously bit quickly walked over to wear I was standing.
"Yes your highness?" She curtised
I turned to her, " Do you know where Clarissa is?" I asked.
She shook her head, tears pooling in her eyes, " I'm sorry I don't know where they are. When I left I had s feeling they would pack up and leave."
I narrowed my eyes at her. I usually have a good degree to if there telling the truth or not. She seems to be telling the truth and her tears looked legitimate enough.
"Okay. I believe you. Get out of my sight!" I sneered.
She quickly scurried back to the camp next to that same guard. I sigh and opened the crumpled map again. I looked at the rivers and towns and forest. Then one town caught my attention.
Alicante!
Lilith came up behind me and put her hands around my waist, "Where are we going now?"
I smirked, "Next we're going to Alicante."
*****Clary POV******
We walked for about a few hours through the woods. I started to get a worried. Shouldn't we have came across a dirt road or a small town. Maybe we we're in the middle of the forest or we just haven't got there yet.
"When are we gonna be at a town or something?" Simon groaned.
Me and Simon seem to always think the same. I'm starting to think we're twins.
Alec took his map out and checked, "We should be coming across a town in a couple of miles."
"Great what's it called love?" Magnus said.
I saw Alec face grew as red as my hair, "Uhh its called Alicante."
"Good we can get some food there." Jace laughed.
"Can we stay at a Inn? I need sleep and a bath." Izzy called out.
"Only for a few days then we have to keep moving." Alec called back.
"Good." Izzy smiled.
We walked for a little while in silence. Me in my own depressing thoughts. Simon and Izzy were holding hands and Alec and Magnus were quietly whispering. I smiled a little and looked at Jace. He looked sad, his eyes faraway looking into the past. I wonder what he's thinking about?
A surge of confidence rose through me a I walked up to him, "What are you thinking about?"
He didn't seem at all surprised that I suddenly showed up beside him, "I was just thinking about my parents."
I didn't expect him to actually tell me, "What were they like?"
He smiled sadly, "They were the best. They gave me everything I wanted, a bath in tomato soup, my own pet bed. Anything to make me happy."
A bath in soup? I try to imagine Jace a little kid playing in tomato soup but failed miserably.
"What happened to them?" I asked slowly.
He took a deep breath, "They were involved in something they shouldn't be in." He said softly.
I opened my mouth to ask what was it that they weren't suppose to be in when Alec called out, "We're here."
I looked away from Jace to the town. It was more like a small city than a town. There were a lot of houses and small stores. There were also people selling stuff out of carts pulled by horses and mules. There were items like earrings and necklaces and huge items like watermelon and meat. There was also a lot of people. Woman carrying bags of food gossiping with one another. Men with barreling chest guffawed loudly. Children played with each other.
"Let's hurry up and find an inn. I'm starving." Izzy muttered.
We moved through the town. The people of Alicante starred at us with wonder and awe. It's obvious that a lot visitor don't come here often.
"How about that inn? Institute Inn. That sounds weird." Simon voiced.
"Mm looks nice enough. Let's go and check in." Jace said hurriedly.
We went in and the smell of alcohol hit me hard that tears welled in my eyes. It was a bright room with tables occupied by big gruffy men with unkempt beards laughing loudly. At the Ned of the room there was a kitchen and stairs that most likely leads to the rooms.
We headed our ways to the kitchen. We were getting a lot of unwanted attention and catcalls by the men sitting at the tables.
"Hey why don't you come home with me little red, I'll show you a good time!" A beer belly guy said in the corner.
I saw Jace's jaw and hands clench tightly. I hope a fight doesn't break out. Jace kept himself in control as we walked towards the kitchen. A lady looked up at us. I jumped up and shock. She's the exact replica of Luke.
"Hello. I'm Amatis. How may I help you?" She asked kindly.
"We want a room to stay in for a few days please." Jace put on a dazzling smile for the lady, but she didn't seem affected by it.
"Would you like one room or two rooms?" She asked.
We all looked at each other questionable.
"We prefer one room." Jace said.
She looked at us for a minute and said, "I have two rooms connected on the top floor. You can have it if you want."
I smiled, "Yes, we would like it, and can we have a warm bath too? "
"Of course. How about a nice beef stew with that?" She smiled warmly.
"Yes, that would be great." Izzy smiled and clapped.
"Okay come one I'll show you the rooms." She ushered us up stairs to see the rooms.
It was all the way to the top of the Inn. The inn was creaky and dusty but homey nevertheless.
"Okay here it is." She opened the door to the room. The room was a medium size with a queen size bed in the middle and a window on each side. The room was plain and creaky as we walked around.
"Is this the second room?" I pointed to the door on the size.
"Yep, but its a little bot smaller than this one." Amatis said.
"Its okay. Well take it." Jace nodded.
"That'll be 200 dollars." She said.
"That not bad." Simon pointed out.
Amatis shrugged "I try to make my prices reasonable ."
Alec took a decent amount of gold and silver coins and gave it to Amatis.
Her eyes widened at the amount in her hand, "This is two times more then what what asked for."
Alec shrugged, "Just keep it."
She looked at us curiously but then nodded, "I hope you enjoy your stay."
She closed the door softly after that. I moved slowly and sat at the front of the bed, "Alec why'd you give her so much?"
"She's a nice woman. She deserve a little more money." Alec said.
"Yea I guess so. Clary, I saw some really pretty jewelry that we need to check out!" Izzy grabbed my hand and quickly went out the door.
"But I thought you want to take a bath?" I said.
"The bath can wait. Those earrings were gorgeous!" We quickly went out of the Inn to the station selling jewelry.
The jewelry were pretty. The shined brightly in the sun. There were earring and necklaces of all colors. Blue, purple, pink, orange, any color there is.
"These earring would look lovely with your eyes, miss." The clerk said holding a beautiful pair of g and red earring.
"Ohh, yes those do go lovely with your hair and eyes." Izzy said.
"Mm I don't know. The do look lovely but..." I stopped suddenly. A feeling in my chest rose quickly. It felt like my heart was being squeezed.
"What wrong?" Izzy put he hand gently on my shoulder.
"M-my chest. It's..." I stopped again. My vision must be playing tricks on me.
"Clary?" Izzy said worriedly.
I shook my head. It can't be true. I roughly took Izzy arm and ran away from the jewelry to hid behind a two building far away.
"Clary what is wrong with you?" Izzy snatched her as away from my death grip.
"I saw Sebastian." I whispered.
THATS IT FOR CHAPTER 29
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