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Clockwork Angel (The first book in the Infernal Devices series) (2010) A novel by Cassandra Clare

For Jim and Kate

Thames River Song

A note of salt slips in and the river rises, darkening to the color of tea, swelling to meet the green. Above its banks the cogs and wheels of monstrous machines clank and spin, the ghost within vanishes into its coils, whispering mysteries. Each tiny golden cog has teeth, each great wheel moves a pair of hands which take the water from the river, devour it, convert it into steam, coerce the great machine to run on the force of its dissolution. Gently, the tide is rising, corrupting the mechanism. Salt, rust and silt slowing the gears. Down at the banks the iron tanks sway into their moorings with the hollow boom of a gigantic bell, of drum and cannon which cry out in a tongue of thunder and the river rolls under.

—Elka Cloke