i'm pure at heart, it repels the dirt

The Silent Brothers were not at the beck and call of ordinary mortals, nor was the their domain a place you could just waltz into at will. This meant they'd had to wait until early this morning until Jace had been able to take Clary down to the Silent City so that they could find out things that were perhaps hiding inside her brain, locked away. Simon had showed up at the Institute while Jace and Clary were gone, so once Jace called the Lightwoods to meet them for breakfast at Taki's, he tagged along. Even waited for Isabelle to get ready when Alec already headed out. Kind of like a puppy. Guess that was the type she attracted.

When they arrived at the diner, Jace and Alec and Clary were already in a booth, where the latter was perusing the perfectly ordinary menu selections with a look of stupefaction. It was all too much. "They have smoothies here?"

( There's this apricot-plum smoothie with wildflower honey that's simply divine. )

[ooc: NFB, NFI, OOC-okay. Taken with minor tweakage from City of Bones. More to follow later.]