Part of Clary Fray was still somewhat wondering if this wasn't all some really strange waking dream she was having. The kind of thing where you dreamed that you were falling off of a cliff and just barely hanging on to the guard rail and you woke up to find your hands desperately clinging to the rails of your foot board and it was only your own bed that you were falling out of.
...Not that she'd ever actually done that or anything. Just...hypothetically speaking, she imagined it was something like that.
But the longer it went on, the more real that it became and the Shadowhunter was losing hope of waking up to find that it wasn't her actual reality. It wasn't like it was a bad place or anything. The people were actually really, really nice. It was just that no one had asked her if she'd wanted to come and help them do...whatever it was that they were doing. Clary wasn't so sure she understood the actual mission here yet but it seemed like the kind of thing she'd have been glad to help with. You know, if someone asked.
Then again, no one had ever asked her if she wanted to be a Shadowhunter either so it's not like she was used to her fate being of her own design. Pretty much the opposite, actually.
Still, there was major things going on back home. Things that she needed to be there for. People that she needed to be there for. People she just...needed. Like Jace. Jace who was apparently also here? That was a twist she hadn't seen coming but hey, she'd definitely take it. If this really was a dream, then Jace being here made more sense than anything because what was anything in her life these days, especially her dreams, without him?
He had offered to come to her, apparently they lived in different building or something, and the wait for him to be at her door seemed to stretch out to infinity though knowing Jace, he had actually hurried. The knock at her door held about as much patience as she did and within seconds, the door was no longer between them. Nothing was.
"Hey," Clary said, feeling her whole face brighten as she looked up into his eyes. So many things flooded through her, but most of all relief. Whatever it was this place was or that they were here to do, she knew now that everything was going to be okay. They were here together--nothing else stood a chance.