Chapter 6 - Cliche encounter

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Talysa sat up causing pain to shoot through her head, dim light flowed through a small window in the Corner of the room. The air was cold and stale, dark emptiness surrounding her. The room was the size of a prison cell but felt more like a cave, the walls rough and the roof rounded. Talysa was leaning against the wall, the pain in her head slowly fading. She strained her eyes trying to make out her surroundings. She stands up and is hit with a wave of dizziness, taking a breath she walks over to where the fourth wall should be, in it's place stand a barrier of cold iron bars.
"I see you've finally decided to wake up." Talysa jumps back with surprise as the person from the alley walks into view. It's impossible to make out their features in the darkness.
"Who are you!" Talysa backs away from the bars.
"Who I am doesn't matter." They reply
"Since you'll be back to your normal mundane life soon enough." They're voice seemed calming when they said that, as if they were talking about paradise.
"Why do you need me then. You may as well tell me." They chuckled. Why would I tell you? You'd just run off and tell your downworlder friends.
"'Friends' isn't exactly the right word" Talysa mumbles under her breath her arms crossed against her chest. "How are they a threat to you anyway?"
"They really have kept a lot from you, haven't they?" They laugh again. "Your friends have connections with people who could easily destroy my plans." Talysa couldn't bring herself to believe what they were telling her.
"Your lying. They don't know anyone who could be a danger to you." she snapped, refusing to believe they had told even more lies.
"Is that so? I guess being the younger sister of the New York pack leader is nothing." Talysa stared at the shadowy outline of the mystery person.
"Shocking isn't it? It's even more shocking how your warlock friend manged to hide where she lived for all these years." The strangers words echoed in Talysa's head. Thinking back now she can't remember ever meeting someone from Grace's family.
"Why are you telling me this, after all I'm just a mundane." Talysa spat.
"I think everyone deserves the truth. And it seems that you've been fed an unhealthy amount of lies."
"What do you want from me?"
"Your simply bait. Despite the lies they've told, they care and they will come for you."
"What do you want with them." Talysa felt a shiver run down her spine and Her palms sweat.
"Just a demon summoning. I suspect it shouldn't be to difficult for someone raised by the high warlock of Brooklyn." If talysa was holding Somthing she would have dropped it. It was if every thread that was holding her together suddenly snapped, her previously hidden emotions now present on her face.

Grace walked behind Audrey and Ally, listing to Ally recite her plan over and over again, silently making note of small changes and Audrey's sarcastic comments.
"Your being very quiet." Ally says turning around.
"I'm just thinking." She answered plainly.
"What about?" Ally asked
"How terrible this plan is, and how much trouble we're going to be in when someone finds out." Ally looks forward again.
"You mean 'if' someone finds out." Ally answered. Grace rolled her eyes.
"We're here." Audrey cuts in.
"And it's ten past nine." Grace adds. They walk up to a old warehouse and Ally pushes open the rusty door.
"This isn't cliche at all." Grace mutters sarcastically. Inside is dark as if the sun had been removed from the sky completely, the door slides closed behind them and a small light flickers at the end of the room.
"I feel like we're in a movie." Ally whispers as they walk forward.
"Welcome, I hoped you would show up, however we do only have twenty minutes to do this." The voice echos through the large space as someone walked into the light. Audrey stepped forward.
"How did you know we would come?" She asked.
"You all seem to be quite fond of the mundane. Despite the fact that you've lied about your entire lives." The stranger looked nice, in the sense of looks. Personality wise he looked like some twisted version of Jonathan. Grace shuddered. Ally went to ask another question but got interrupted.
"Where is she?" Grace had stepped next to Ally instead of floating behind.
"Why would I tell you that?" The Jonathan look alike chuckled. "If I did you would run off and I wouldn't get what I want."
"What do you want?" Audrey asked her hand placed gently on the hilt of a dagger hanging from her belt.
"Well shadowhunter, it's a simple thing really." He smirks, glancing at the ground. "I need a demon." He states bluntly. They were all shocked, not even Ally made a snarky remark. "And how do you suppose your getting this 'demon'?" Grace asked, finding this entire situation cliche.
"You, my dear, are going to summon it." He answers sweetly. Ally Laughed
"You think she can summon a demon! She's about as thereatning as a fluffy bunny!" Grace glanced sideways to see Audrey smiling.
"She's also a bookworm who reads things she's not supposed to." the stranger answers not seeming amused at all. He walked forward towards them and Grace only just noticed he's holding Somthing. In a flash Audrey's dagger was out and pointed directly at the demon obbssed maniac.
"Let me put this simply. Take this book, Summon the bookmarked demon, and your mundane lives." He places the book in Grace's hands and backs away. She opens it to the bookmarked page, Ally watching and Audrey glaring at the Mundane kidnapping stranger.
"What the hell." Ally says softly. Grace looks up, glaring at mystery man.
"No." She says
"No?" he questions. "Well I guess I'll kill the mundane then." He turns to leave.
"No, wait... I'll do it." Grace says, reading through the page.
"You can't be serious!" Ally yells. "I'm like eighty percent sure that's a greater demon."
"It is." Grace answers.
"No. I won't let you." Ally rips the book from Grace's hands and runs towards the door.

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