[ She glances down at their hands and tries not to let the tears gathering in her eyes slip past her lashes. ]

Small Science? [ Her mouth twitches. ] I like that. Maybe I should take that to the Clave. They hate having people call what we can do magic. [ It's an aside to the real problem but she's never been very good at dealing with real problems. ]

She hid it to hide me. [ It comes out simply and honest. She'd wanted to hide the cup of course. But why not go back to the Shadowhunter world after? The cup was just one of the things she had. A bargaining chip against Valentine. ] But it just didn't do any good. He found her. He found the cup. He found me. When I went back the whole city was on fire. He'd gotten in and I still don't know how. I couldn't even do anything about it. I just went and took what I could find. I knew I'd need it here.