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"Well, it’s irasshopper that had hurled itself onto his collar Everyone in the group watched hiain theall of his movements If Adam noticed this extra attention, he didn’t indicate it "It won’t fly if it has no battery and no engine"

Now Blue knehat this thing was Ronan Lynch, keeper of secrets, fighter of men, devil of a boy, had told them all that he could take objects out of his dreams Example A: Chainsaw Gansey had been excited; he was the sort of boy who didn’t necessarily believe everything, but wanted to But Ada every truth presented to him, had wanted proof

" ‘It won’t fly if it has no battery and no engine,’ " Ronan her-pitched version of Adam’s faint Henrietta drawl "Noah: the controller"

Noah scuffled in the clurass for the radio controller Like the plane, it hite and shiny, all the edges rounded His hands looked solid around it Though he had been dead for quite a while and by all rights should appearwhen standing on the ley line

"What’s supposed to go inside the plane, if not a battery?" Gansey asked

Ronan said, "I don’t know In the dreauess they didn’t corass "Here"

"Good thinking, ot" Ronan stuffed them into the hatch He reached for the controller, but Adam intercepted it and shook it by his ear

"This doesn’t even weigh anything," he said, dropping the controller into Blue’s palm

It was very light, Blue thought It had five tiny white buttons: four arranged in a cross shape, and one off by itself To Blue, that fifth button was like Ada toward the saer quite as close as the others

"It ork," Ronan said, taking the controller and handing the plane to Noah "It worked in the drea, Noah lifted the tiny plane between thu ready to launch a pencil So in Blue’s chest thrummed with excitement It was impossible that Ronan had dreas had happened already

"Kerah," Chainsaw said This was her nareed Ronan Then, to the others, he said imperiously, "Count it down"

Adaly chanted, "Five-four-three --"

On blast-off, Ronan pressed one of the buttons

Soundlessly, the tiny plane darted from Noah’s hand and into the air

It worked It really worked

Gansey laughed out loud as they all tipped their heads back to watch its ascent Blue shielded her eyes to keep sight of the tiny white figure in the haze It was so small and nimble that it looked like a real plane thousands of feet above the slope With a frenzied cry, Chainsaw launched herself from Ronan’s shoulder to chase it Ronan pitched the plane left and right, looping it around the crest, Chainsaw close behind When the plane passed back overhead, he hit that fifth button Seed heads cascaded fro off their shoulders Blue clapped and reached her palm out to catch one

"You incredible creature," Gansey said His delight was infectious and unconditional, broad as his grin Ada still and faraway around his eyes Noah breathed whoa, his pal for the plane to return to it And Ronan stood there with his hands on the controller and his gaze on the sky, not sly alive, the curve of his e and pleased It suddenly didn’t sees from his dreams

In that ic Their quest Their awfulness and strangeness Her raven boys

Gansey punched Ronan’s shoulder "Glendower traveled with icians, I mean Wizards They helped him control the weather -- maybe you could dream us a cold snap"

"Har"

"They also told the future," added Gansey, turning to Blue

"Don’t look at endary

"Or helped him tell the future," Gansey went on, which did not particularlyto un-irritate her Blue’s short temper and her ability to endary "Shall we go?"

Blue hurried to pick up the telescope before he could get to it -- he shot her a look -- and the other boys fetched the netic-frequency readers They set off on the perfectly straight ley line, Ronan’s gaze still directed up to his plane and to Chainsahite bird and a black bird against the azure ceiling of the world As they walked, a sudden rush of wind hurled low across the grass, bringing with it the scent of ain and again with the knowledge that ic was real

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Declan Lynch, the oldest of the Lynch brothers, was never alone He was never with his brothers, but he was never alone He was a perpetual- over a friend’s table at a pizza joint, here drawn into an alcove with a girl’s pal over the hood of an older ation was so natural that it was i or the filings attracted

It was giving the Gray Man a not inconsiderable difficulty in finding an opportunity to speak with hilionby Acade wasn’t entirely disagreeable The Gray Man found himself quite charravitas that was only possible with age and affluence The dor school term, but they were not e to third-world countries for photo ops and the sons of touring punkthan seventeen-year-old accidental progeny and the sons ofto retrieve them