Hello? This is Clary Fairchild.”<br /><br />“Clary? It’s me, Emma.”<br /><br />“Oh, Emma, hi! I haven’t heard from you in ages. My mom says thanks for the wedding flowers, by the way. She wanted to send a note but Luke whisked her away on a honeymoon to Tahiti.”<br /><br />“Tahiti sounds nice.”<br /><br />“It probably is — Jace, what are you doing with that thing? There is no way it’ll fit.”<br /><br />“Is this a bad time?”<br /><br />“What? No! Jace is trying to drag a trebuchet into the training room. Alec, stop helping him.”<br /><br />“What’s a trebuchet?”<br /><br />“It’s a huge catapult.”<br /><br />“What are they going to use it for?”<br /><br />“I have no idea. Alec, you’re enabling! You’re an enabler!”<br /><br />“Maybe it is a bad time.”<br /><br />“I doubt there’ll be a better one. Is something wrong? Is there anything I can do?”<br /><br />“I think we have your cat.”<br /><br />“What?”<br /><br />“Your cat. Big fuzzy Blue Persian? Always looks angry? Julian says it’s your cat. He says he saw it at the New York Institute. Well, saw him. It’s a boy cat.”<br /><br />“Church? You have Church? But I thought — well, we knew he was gone. We thought Brother Zachariah took him. Isabelle was annoyed, but they seemed to know each other. I’ve never seen Church actually likeanyone like that.”<br /><br />“I don’t know if he likes anyone here. He bit Julian twice. Oh, wait. Julian says he likes Ty. He’s asleep on Ty’s bed.”<br /><br />“How did you wind up with him?”<br /><br />“Someone rang our front doorbell. Diana, she’s our tutor, went down to see what it was. Church was in a cage on the front step with a note tied to it. It said For Emma. This is Church, a longtime friend of the Carstairs. Take care of this cat and he will take care of you. —J.”<br /><br />“Brother Zachariah left you a cat.”<br /><br />“But I don’t even really know him. And he’s not a Silent Brother any more.”<br /><br />“You may not know him, but he clearly knows you.”<br /><br />“What do you think the J stands for?”<br /><br />“His real name. Look, Emma, if he wants you to have Church, and you want Church, you should keep him.”<br /><br />“Are you sure? The Lightwoods —“<br /><br />‘They’re both standing here nodding. Well, Alec is partially trapped under a trebuchet, but he seems to be nodding.”<br /><br />“Jules says we’d like to keep him. We used to have a cat named Oscar, but he died, and, well, Church seems to be good for Ty’s nightmares.”<br /><br />“Oh, honey. I think, really, he’s Brother Zachariah’s cat. And if he wants you to have him, then you should.”<br /><br />“Why does Brother Zachariah want to protect me? It’s like he knows me, but I don’t know why he knows me.”<br /><br />“I don’t exactly know … But I know Tessa. She’s his — well, girlfriend seems not the right word for it. They’ve known each other a long, long time. I have a feeling they’re both watching over you.”<br /><br />“That’s good. I have a feeling we’re going to need it.”<br /><br />“Emma — oh my God. The trebuchet just crashed through the floor. I have to go. Call me later.”<br /><br />“But we can keep the cat?”<br /><br />“You can keep the cat.