Trinity Ravenscar: Mortal Instruments fanfiction

Chapter 5

If any of you know Welcome Night Vale you'll get the old woman Josie reference. If not then don't worry it all gets explained later.

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I finally arrive in New York City about mid day after another three and a half hours of riding.
Pandora's well and truly spent and so am I.
I glance down at the picture again looking for any clue to the location of the institute, I know it will have some sort of glamor on to hide it so I can't just ask any local on the street.
As I study the picture a small rectangle in the corner catches my eye. It's a street sign, brilliant! I ask the first person I see for directions, a lady who looks about in her mid fifties. Her eyebrows knit together in confusion, oh right the horse.

"Are you performing dear? Lovely costume, what show?"

What did she just say about my clothes?

"Umm...." I stutter, more than a little confused.

She laughed a little at my confused expression.

"Oh never mind honey, don't worry."

She then jumped into a long explanation of directions.

"The shop on the corner, you know the blue one! Turn right at that until you reach old woman Josie's house, you know the crazy lady? People say she's a witch, someone...hmm what was there name again" she taps her chin looking into the distance deep in thought. "Margaret! That's right Margaret. Well any way Margret even said she saw Angels in Josie's living room window! Ha imagine that! Well turn left at old woman Josie's house the keep going until you reach..."

I stare at her blankly as she continues to blabber. Who the hell is old woman Josie? What?
I notice she has stopped talking and is looking at me expectantly.

"Oh umm.....thank you?"

"On no worries darling, oh there's Jennie!"
She walks over to another old lady yelling "JENNIE! Did you hear about Kathryn and Paul? Their getting married! Oh he's way too old for her..."

"Right" I mutter to my self as I turn Pandora in the general direction the lady had pointed.
As I go I pass an old blue shop on the corner, I sigh in relief, ok so she wasn't completely mad.
I turn right as instructed and trot down a street full of old granny flats.

How the hell am I supposed to know which one is old woman Josie's house? And what's with the Angel thing?
That lady couldn't have been serious.

Suddenly in front of I see a humanoid figure with white wings and horns. I freak out and pull Pandora to a screeching halt.
The figure vanishes just as quickly as it appeared. I stare ahead of me at the empty road in confusion.

Suddenly I feel a strong grasp on my arm yank me off Pandora. I hit the ground hard, stumbling. I would have fallen over if I weren't for whoever was grasping my arm. They yank me to my feet roughly and spin me around to face them.
It's an old woman, well it would look like an old woman to the untrained mundane eye but under her glamor her green skin and horns proved her to be a warlock.
She leans in close and whispers in my ear.

"You! Inside now shadowhunter"

She jerks her thumb towards an old mundane house behind her similar to the others in the street.
I jerk my arm from her grasp and quick as a flash grab her, spinning around and pinning both her arms behind her back, her front pressed against the side of Pandora.

"What's your name!" I demand.

"Josie. Old woman Josie"