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Standing in the doorith Ronan and Gansey, Blue said, "We need your advice"

"I’m sure you do," replied Calla, in not the warmest of ways She had one of those low, smoky voices that always seemed more appropriate to a black-and-white movie "Ask your question"

Politely, Gansey asked, "Are you sure you can think that way?"

"If you’re doubting me," Calla snapped, "I don’t see why you’re here"

In Gansey’s defense, Calla was upside down She hung /Cat Roo to the floor was a deep purple swath of silk wrapped around one of her thighs

Gansey averted his eyes He whispered in Blue’s ear, "Is this a ritual?"

There was soreen gingham-wallpapered room was full of a multitude of odds and ends to lure the attention, it was difficult to look away froth of silk would hold her weight Currently, she was rotated toward the corner, her back to the a lot of dark brown skin, a pink bra strap, and four tiny tattooed coyotes running along her spine

Blue, holding the puzzle box in her hands, whispered back: "It’s aerial yoga" Louder, she said, "Calla, it’s about Ronan"

Calla readjusted, wrapping the silk around her other thigh instead "Which one’s he again? The pretty one?"

Blue and Gansey exchanged a look Blue’s look said, I’m so, so sorry Gansey’s said, A, al more obvious as she swiveled that she was not the thinnest woman on the planet, but that she had stomach muscles like whoa "The Coca-Cola shirt?"

She meant Ada and was now and foreverrowl, "The snake"

Calla’s rotation finished just as he said it They looked at each other for a long ht side up, her upside down Chainsaw, on Ronan’s shoulder, twisted her head to get a better look There was nothing particularly sy a cruel line, eerie tattoo creeping out the collar of his black T-shirt, raven pressed against the side of his shaved head It was hard to remember the Ronan who’d pressed that tiny mouse to his cheek back at the Barns

Upside down, Calla was trying to look dismissive but it was clear that one of her arched eyebroas terribly interested

"I see," she replied finally "What sort of advice do you need, snake?"

"My dreams," Ronan replied

Now Calla’s eyebrows matched her disain "Persephone’s the one you’ll want for dream interpretation Have a nice life"

"They’ll interest you," Ronan said

Calla just cackled and stretched one of her legs out

Bluetwo strides across the room, she pressed the puzzle box to Calla’s bare cheek

Calla stopped spinning

Slowly, she righted herself The gesture was as elegant as a balletShe said, "Why didn’t you say so?"

Ronan said, "I did"

Her plu you should know about me, snake I don’t believe anyone"

Chainsaw hissed Ronan said, "So you should know about a for the entirety of the conversation

Sos curved beneath her "All of these things are still a part of you To me, they feel precisely the sas So they all share the same life as you The same soul You’re the same entity"

Ronan wanted to protest this -- if Chainsaw fell off a table, he didn’t feel her pain -- but he wouldn’t feel the pain of one of his nail clippings, either

"So when you die, they’ll stop"

"Stop? Not die themselves?" Gansey asked

Calla turned herself upside down, her knees bent and her feet

pressed to each other Itspider "When you die, your computer doesn’t die, too They never really lived like you’re thinking of life It’s not a soul that’s ani the for input"

Ronan thought of what Declan had said all those ht "Soto wake up"

Calla slid slowly upright, freeing her hands "Snake, handthe raven’s wings against her body and relinquishing her