The phone is actually a demon sensor that doesn’t make calls. At home, Clary finds her apartment trashed, except for her mom’s bedroom. Clary’s mom is gone, and as Clary searches, she hears “a dragging, slithering noise” working its way through the apartment (50). A demon with rows of sharp teeth and many eyes attacks her. She shoves the sensor in its mouth, and it disappears like the boy in the club. Something hits the back of Clary’s head, knocking her unconscious.

Clary wakes to Jace bandaging her wound. The blow to her head was the Ravener demon’s stinger, which is poisonous. They need to get to the Shadowhunter institute to heal her, but demons disguised as cops block their only exit. Jace draws a rune on Clary’s arm to hide her and helps her to stand. Head spinning, she falls into Jace, who catches her “as if he were used to catching fainting girls” before she falls unconscious (55).

Clary sleeps for three days and wakes in the Institute infirmary to Isabelle watching over her. Isabelle is impressed that Clary managed to kill the Ravener by herself, even if she isn’t sure how a mere human could do so, and offers Clary clothes since Jace burned her old ones.