the shadow in Shadowhunters

chapter 29

i was still sleeping however, i was listening ning to what they were saying. i also felt a hand play with my hair.

clary "tell me what?"
clary "what's so important that luke risked his life?"
magnus "everything jocelyn hoped to hide from you."
clary "why?"
magnus "when you were younger, i'd watch you scratching ."
magnus "it was your bliss."

magnus "you're gonna need some bliss now."
clary "back then, there wasn't a day i didn't draw."
clary "it was like breathing."
clary "now, i look at this blank page and i barely even know what to do."

clary "sometimes i feel like my art, my memories..."
clary "my life, it..."
clary "it all vanished with that memory demon."

magnus "your art, everything you are..."
magnus "they're still here."
magnus "you're the woman your mother always knew you could be."
clary "but tried to keep me from being."
magnus "that's why you need to know how you got here."

clary "will it help me find my mother?"
magnus "that's the only reason i can think of why luke would be so abamant ."
clary "i'm ready."
clary "bring it, warlock."

magnus "when i first heard about your father, around the time he and jocelyn first got together, long before the uprising and the circle, valentine elevated the morgenstern name to be synonymous with virtue."
magnus "and your mother was at his side."

magnus "but by the time my people came to know him, barely two years later..."
magnus "his name had become synonymous with devastation."

magnus "your mother told me it was then she first saw the signs."
magnus "they never found all the bodies."
magnus "we'd all stood with the clave for centuries."
clary "how could that not matter to him?"

magnus "he was obsessed with ensuring purity of blood."
magnus "convinced that the impurities were a threat to peace."
clary "he was the threat to peace."
magnus "mad men rarely make sense."
magnus "mostly, they just hate. and he hated the downworlders, for the gifts that we possess that he could not have."
magnus "he hated us enough to kill us all."

clary "ever since my mother was kidnapped, and the shadow world invaded my life, so many downworlders have helped me, not even thinking about what it might cost them."
clary "how could valentine not see good in any of them?"

magnus "he was blinded by his ambition."
clary "why didn't the clave stop him?"
magnus "he was clever."
magnus "he and his followers, they managed to convince the clave that the downworlders they killed on their special missions had violated the accords in some way."

magnus "complete fabrications ."
clary "how could the clave not see?"
magnus "shadow hunters believe in the law as absolute."
magnus "they could never conceive of one of their own going astray."