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Adaood to have identified the probleine, with school, with life Solutions were easy, once you kneas in your way

Cabeswater ently The voices tickled inside hiht He wished he had the cards So to say I won’t be able to understand you Wait until I can understand you

As he looked back down the hill, he sao He shielded his eyes with his hand At first he thought she was one of Cabeswater’s inary froray frock, boots up her entire leg

But then he saw that she had a shadow and form and mass, and that she was a little out of breath

Persephone climbed up to meet him and then stood with her hands on her hips She turned in a slow circle, looking at the view, blowing out her breath

"Why are you here?" he asked her Was she here to bring hirinned at hiht of what a cruel mockery that mirror-version of her had been, the terrible child-creature fro like this airy, whisper of a person in front of hi, she retrieved a black silk bag from inside It was the sort of fabric that you wanted to touch, s inside the handbag

"You left, Ada the sht Whatever was inside was vaguely warm, as if it, like the hill, were alive "What is it?"

After he asked, he thought suddenly about how she had taken care to say his na But it felt as if she were re him of what it was

Ada into his other hand A word leapt out at hiician

Persephone said, "My tarot cards"

hey Lynch I didn’t leave that car for it to just sit while you blow III

The Gray Man checked out of Pleasant Valley Bed and Breakfast and placed his suitcase just inside the door of Maura’s bedroo until the Fourth There was no point

Calla said, "Give me some poetry, and I’ll row resolute, our

courage rows less’ "

Then he did it in the original Old English

Callawith butter and Callawith bacon and Blue steaot ready for her night shift and Orla answered the ever-ringing psychic hotline The Gray Man got underfoot trying to be helpful He understood that this was an ordinary night at 300 Fox Way, all of this noise and commotion and disorder It was a senseless sort of dance, artful and confused Blue and Maura had their own orbit; Maura and Calla another He watched Maura’s bare feet circle on the kitchen floor

It was the opposite of everything he had cultivated for the past five years

Hoanted to stay

This isn’t a life for what you are, he told hiht, he would pretend

At dinner, Calla said, "So, what’s next?" She was only eating the foods with bacon in theuess we have to find a way to "

"Well," Maura asked "What does he want?"

Blue shrugged fro addict want? Nothing"

Maura frowned over her plate of butter "So"

"Either way," Blue replied, "I can’t see hoe can offer that"

The Gray Man politely interjected, "I could talk to hi for you"

Blue stabbed a piece of broccoli "Sounds great"

Maura gave her a look "What she means to say is, no thanks"

"No," Blue said, brows beetled, "I meant to say, and can you ent!" Maura looked shocked "I didn’t raise you to be violent!"

Calla, who’d inhaled so, clutched the table until she stopped choking

"No," Blue said dangerously "But soood children"

The Gray Man was a Upstairs, they heard the sound of Orla scra desperately for it With a pleasant smile, Maura snatched the downstairs extension and listened for a moment

"What an excellent idea It will be harder to trace," Maura told the phone To the table, she said, "Gansey has a Mitsubishi that Mr Gray can take instead of his rental Oh, he says it was actually Ronan’s idea"

The gesture warmed the Gray Man considerably The reality of his escape was far more difficult than he’d admitted to any of theas He had left a dirty pot in the sink at his home back in Massachusetts, and he would think about it forever

It would help if he didn’t have to steal the Chaed for simplicity

To the phone, Maura said: "No -- no, Adam’s not here He’s with Persephone, I believe I’ht Would you like to talk to Blue? No --?"