First, the very clipped, almost polite correction of — "You know my name." Sweetheart is a term nostalgically preserved as something her father would call her, and Jake Griffin isn't here.

Secondly, pushing and prying goes both ways. Clarke just lacks the tactic of softening up through music before going for the tender spots.

"Were you up there singing your heart out because the ghosts in the mirrors consumed you, Skulduggery Pleasant decapitated you, or something else?"