Fely93
2009-04-30 13:46:15 UTC
"You worried about being followed?" Sebastian asked as they turned down a side street that led away from the city center, noticing the way she kept glancing around her.
"I keep thinking I see people I know," she admitted. "Jace, or the Lightwoods."
"I don't think Jace has left the Penhallows' since they got here. He mostly seems to be skulking in his room. He hurt his hand pretty badly yesterday too-"
"Hurt his hand? How?" Clary, forgetting to look where she was going, stumbled over a rock. The road they'd been walking on had somehow turned from cobblestones to gravel without her noticing. "Ouch."
"We're here," Sebastian announced, stopping in front of a high wood-and-wire fence. There were no houses around-they had rather abruptly left the residential district behind, and there was only this fence on one side and a gravelly slope leading away toward the forest on the other.
There was a door in the fence, but it was padlocked. From his pocket Sebastian produced a heavy steel key and opened the gate. "I'll be right back with our ride." He swung the gate shut behind him. Clary put her eye to the slats. Through the gaps she could glimpse what looked like a low-slung red clapboard house. Though it didn't appear to really have a door-or proper windows-
The gate opened, and Sebastian reappeared, grinning from ear to ear. He held a lead in one hand: Pacing docilely behind him was a huge gray and white horse with a blaze like a star on its forehead.
"A horse? You have a horse?" Clary stared in amazement. "Who has a horse?"