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Neeve had come to stand just behind her She replied, "Not yet"

Gansey was nearly gone now, fading into the church, or the church fading into him

Blue’s voice was breathier than she would have liked "Why -- why can I see hilanced over her shoulder, either because there wereor because there weren’t -- Blue couldn’t tell By the time she looked back, Gansey had vanished entirely Already Blue felt wars felt icy A dangerous, sucking sadness seeret

"There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St Mark’s Eve, Blue Either you’re his true love," Neeve said, "or you killed him"

Chapter 2

It’shis car The Cae hood was up, more as a symbol of defeat than for any practical use Adaht have been able to deter with it this tied to roll to a stop about four feet off the interstate and now the car’s fat tires sat off-kilter on top of lurass A semitruck roared by without pause; the Camaro rocked in its wake

On the other end of the phone, his rooht you were dead in a ditch"

Gansey flipped his wrist around to examine his watch He had missed a lot more than World History It was eleven o’clock, and already the chilliness of last night seenat was stuck in the perspiration on his skin next to the watch-band; he flicked it off Gansey had caer It had involved tents Sleeping bags An idling Range Rover parked nearby for when he and his father lost interest As an experience, it had not been anything like last night

He asked, "Did you get notes for ht you were dead in a ditch"

Gansey blew grit off his lips and readjusted the phone against his cheek He would’ve gotten notes for Ronan "The Pig stopped Coetout theGansey was not an unpleasant-looking boy and the Camaro was not too hard on the eyes, either, but this attention had less to do with colionby boy broken down by the side of the road in an ie car Gansey ell aware that there was nothing little Henrietta, Virginia, preferred over seeing hu hus happen to their families

Ronan said, "Co to class You knohat, it’ll be lunch break anyway" Then he added, perfunctory, "Please"

Ronan was silent for a long ood at silence; he knew itexposure He leaned into the car to see if he had any food in the glove box while he waited for Ronan to speak Next to an EpiPen, there was a stick of beef jerky, but the jerky had expired two years ago Possibly it had been there when he’d bought the car

"Where are you?" Ronan asked, finally

"Next to the Henrietta sign on 64 Bring as" The car had not run out of gas, but it couldn’t hurt

Ronan’s voice was acidic "Gansey"

"Bring Ada up Gansey stripped off his sweater and threw it in the back of the Cae of everyday things -- a chemistry textbook, a Frappuccino-stained notebook, a half-zipped CD binder with naked discs slithering out across the seat -- and the supplies he’d acquired during his eighteen months in Henrietta Ruht,stick When Gansey plucked a digital recorder out of the e, half avocado) fluttered to the seat, joining a half-dozen receipts identical except for the date

All night he’d sat outside the monstrously , ears straining, waiting for -- soical Possibly not the best place to try to make contact with the future dead, but Gansey had h hopes for the power of St Mark’s Eve It wasn’t that he’d expected to see the dead All of the sources said that church watchers had to possess "the second sight" and Gansey barely possessed first sight before he put his contacts in He’d just hoped for --

Sootten He just wasn’t quite sure what that soital recorder in hand, Gansey settled hi the car shield hi vehicles On the other side of the guard rail, a greening field stretched out and down to the trees Beyond it all rose the mysterious blue crest of the mountains

On the dusty toe of his shoe, Gansey drew the arcing shape of the proy line that had led him here As the mountain breeze rushed over his ears, it sounded like a hushed shout -- not a whisper, but a loud cry fro was, Henrietta looked like a place where ic could happen The valley seemed to whisper secrets It was easier to believe that they wouldn’t give themselves up to Gansey rather than that they didn’t exist at all

Please just tellof it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain

Ronan Lynch’s shark-nosed BMW pulled in behind the Careen with pollen Gansey felt the bass of the stereo in his feet a moment before hehis door In the passenger seat was Adam Parrish, the third member of the foursome that made up Gansey’s closest friends The knot of Adam’s tie was neat above the collar of his sweater One slender hand pressed Ronan’s thin cell phone tightly to his ear

Through the open car door, Adaed the briefest of looks Ada? and Gansey’s widened eyes replied, You tellnow, spun the volu into the phone

Ronan sla to the trunk He said, "My dick brother wants us to ht With Ashley"

"Is that who’s on the phone?" Gansey asked "What’s Ashley?"