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"Out having a grand old time without me Is Calla still here?"
Mike opened the door wider to ad down in the baseray carpet in the baseenerous and out-of-breathnu and stacked Blue placed the Caic trick," she ordered
"How rude!" But Calla reached up to fold her hands over the top of the pocked metal Her eyes were closed, so she couldn’t knohat it was, but she said, "He’s not alone when he leaves the car behind"
There was so about the phrase Leaves behind
It could have just meant "parked the car" But it didn’t sound like that when Calla said it It sounded like a synony pretty
"When does it happen?"
"It already has," Calla replied Her eyes opened and fixed on Blue "And it hasn’t yet Time’s circular, chicken We use the same parts of it over and over Some of us more than others" "Wouldn’t we remember that?"
"I said time was circular," Calla replied "I didn’t saycreepy," Blue said "Maybe youaccidentally creepy, I thought I’d let you know"
"You’re the one dealing with creepy things Running with people who use tiht about how Gansey had cheated death on the ley line, and how he see at the sa you’ve got there" Blue traded the wheel for the shield boss Calla held it for a long while Then she sat up and reached for Blue’s hand She began to huers over the ravens on the boss It was an archaic, haunted sort of tune, and it ging him at this point," Calla said "The horses had died TheThey meant to bury this with him, but it was too heavy
They left it behind"
Left it behind
The echo felt deliberate Gansey would not abandon the Camaro unless he was under duress; Glendower’s men wouldn’t abandon his shield without similar distress
"But it is Glendower’s? Is he close?" Blue felt a little kick to her heart
"Close and far is like already happened and not happened yet," Calla replied
Blue tired of the enigmatic psychic talk She insisted, "But they had no horses So it’s only as far as they could go on foot" "People," Calla said, "can walk a long way if they have to" She got up and returned the shield boss to Blue She shed very noisily
"Calla?" Blue asked suddenly "Are you one of those people who reuses time? You and Mom and Persephone?"
By way of answer, Calla answered, "Have you ever felt like there is so ain "Yes! "
Calla removed the keys to the Fox Way car from her pocket
"Good Everyone should feel that way Here Take these You’re driving ho more out of her They bade Mike farewell (Don’t drive that wheel too fast, now!), put Blue’s bike in the trunk, and drove rather slowly home As Blue atte a small, three-colored car already parked on the curb, Calla clucked
"Well," she reood today" This was because Ada on their front step
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Adae to have so easily gained access to a girl’s bedroo-- canvas silhouettes of trees stuck to the walls, leaves hanging in chains fro WORMS FOR ALL painted above a shelf cluttered with buttons and about nine different pairs of scissors Against the wall, Blue self-consciously taped up the drooping branch on one of the trees
No time, no time
He squeezed his eyes shut for just a second He waited for her to stopHe felt his pulse sier
Blue stopped abruptly She leaned on her hands against the wall, expression watchful
Adain the conversation with a persuasive statement on why Gansey’s conservative approach to the quest rong, but that wasn’t what he said Instead, he said, "I want to knohy you won’t kiss me, and I don’t want a lie this ti fan in the corner moved over both of them The tips of the branches fluttered The leaves spiraled
Blue demanded, "That’s what you calad of it It orse to be the only person angry
When he didn’t answer, she kept going, voice ever angrier, "That’s the first conversation you want to have after co back from DC?"
"What does it matter where I ca about -- about how the party went We’d be talking about where you disappeared to and what you wanted to do about that and I don’t know, real, things Not whether or not you got to kiss ht it was the most irrelevant response ever, and she still hadn’t answered his question "Ronan and Noah aren’t irlfriend"
"Girlfriend!" Blue repeated, and he felt a disconnected thrill to hear her say the word "How about friend-friend?"
"I thought ere friend-friends"
"Are we? Friends talk You go walking to the Pentagon and I find out from Gansey! Your dad’s a jerk and I find out fro"
"They don’t know everything They knohat they were there for Gansey knows because he was there"
"Yeah, and asn’t I?"
"Why would you be?"
"Because you’d invited htened "But there wasn’t any reason for you to be there"
"Right, sure Because there’s no girls in politics! I have no interest Voting? What? I forgot ht now, actually My rolling pin --"