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And the third reason was that it suggested permanence Blue had acquaintances at school, people she liked But they weren’t forever While she was friendly with a lot of them, there was no one that she wanted to commit to for a lifetiood at having casual friends For Blue, there was family -- which had never been about blood relation at 300 Fox Way -- and then there was everyone else

When the boys ca everyone else

Currently, both Adam and Gansey were situated in the narroels of the house It was a wide open, proh everyWithout any particular discussion, Gansey and Blue had co, once Ronan arrived

Gansey sat the kitchen table in an aggressively green polo shirt By his left hand was a glass bottle of a fancy coffee beverage he had brought with hi teas For severalon a line of healthful teas to augment their income Blue had learned early on that healthful was not a synonym for delicious, and had very vocally reroup

Gansey didn’t know any better, so he accepted what he was given

"I don’t think I can wait any longer But I would like to e So store-brand pudding "I don’t think we can ever make it completely safe, but surely there is a way to beabout the process of drinking one of Maura’s teas Then she realized he was talking about Cabeswater Blue loved it in a way that was hard to hold inside herself She’d always loved the big beech tree in their backyard and the oaks that lined Fox Way, and forests in general, but nothing had prepared her for Cabeswater’s trees Ancient and twisted and sentient And -- they’d known her na more

Maura watched Gansey carefully Blue suspected this was not because of anything Gansey was saying but because she aiting for hi in that cup in front of hi on a yogurt It had fruit on the bottom, but she’d eat around it She threw herself into a chair at the table "You’re going to say, ‘Well, then, don’t take Blue with you’ "

Her mother flipped a hand like, If you knehy’d you ask?

Gansey said, "What? Oh, because Blue s louder?"

Crossly, Blue realized that Gansey had now called her Jane so often that it felt strange to hear him say her real na to say that, even though it’s true I was going to say that this place y and spirit has rules -- we just don’t always know them So it looks unpredictable to us But it’s really just because we’re idiots Are you sure you want to go back?"

Gansey took a drink of his healing tea Maura’s chin jutted as she observed the lu down his throat His face re, but after a entle fist of his hand and thuood for?" he asked politely His voice was a little odd until he cleared his throat

"General wellness," Maura said "Also, it’s supposed to e drea eyebrow "Who else’s would you be alas e without breathing, but he stopped and put the bottle on the table with a clink "Do I need help with legal ed "Ask a psychic"

"Mom," Blue said "Seriously" To Gansey, she proo with me," he said, "But the incontrovertible fact re on a ley line and it is a mystical forest on a ley line I can’t discount that coincidence We can look elsewhere, but I think Glendower’s there And I don’t want to waste ti out"

"Are you sure you still want to find him?" Maura asked

Blue already knew this question was irrelevant Without cutting her gaze over to him, she already knehat she would see She would see a rich boy dressed like a mannequin and coiffed like a newscaster -- but his eyes were like the drea well, but now that she’d seen it once, she couldn’t stop seeing it After all, that was all she could see But he wouldn’t be able to explain it to Maura

And he would never really have to explain it to Blue

It was his so more

Very formally, he said, "Yes, I do"

"It could kill you," Maura said

Then there was the aard moment that arrives when two thirds of the people in the room know that the other third is supposed to die in fewer than nine months, and the person who is meant to die is not one of the ones in the know

"Yes," Gansey said "I know I’ve done it once before Die, I mean Do you not like the fruit bits? That’s the best part" He directed this last stateurt cup He was very clearly done with talking about death

Maura sighed, giving up, just as Calla storry She e and tore a pudding cup fro in her hand, she shook it at Gansey and thundered, "Just reaer than you They all knohere to get the level ups"

She plowed from the rooreed Blue After a second, she pushed back her chair to follow Maura, but Gansey stretched a hand out

"Wait," he said in a low voice

"Wait what?"

With a glance out toward the hall and reading rooht of Ada his temper Her cheeks warmed "What about him?"

Gansey rubbed a thumb over his lower lip It was a pensive habit, perfor left to cover his botto?"

If Blue had thought her cheeks ar in them now "You didn’t tell hirieved "You told me not to!"

"Well, no I haven’t"

"Don’t you think you should?"

The kitchen didn’t seem very private, and they’d both unconsciously leaned as close as possible to keep their voices fro Blue hissed, "It’s all very under control I don’t really want to be discussing this with you, of all people!"