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But then she flushed, hearing again President Cell Phone’s voice saying I’ll take care of it She shot him a foul look, a real Calla number, and whirled back toward the kitchen

Neeve had to be wrong She’d never fall in love with one of theain," Gansey asked Adaood idea?"

The pizzas had been demolished (no help from Noah), which made Gansey feel better and Ronan feel worse By the end the -dolly scabs and he would’ve picked off Adam’s as well if he’d let him Gansey sent him outside to blow off steam and Noah to babysit hiued about y work," said Ada music He studied his arm where he’d worried his own scab off The skin beneath looked a little angry Looking up, he peered over his shoulder, probably looking for the evil, not-a-prostitute waitress Part of Gansey felt guilty for botching Adam’s chances with her The other part felt he’d possibly saved Ada his spinal cord ripped out and devoured

It was possible, Gansey thought, that he’d once again been oblivious about money He hadn’t meant to be offensive but, in retrospect, it was possible he had been This was going to eat at hi He vowed, as he had a hundred times before, to consider his words better

Aday"

"Matchy matchy," Gansey replied "If the psychic is for real"

Adaars can’t be choosers"

Gansey looked at the handwritten ticket for the pizza in his hand According to the bubbly writing, their waitress’s name had been Cialina She’d included her telephone nu to attract Soerous to consort with than others She clearly hadn’t found hi

Which was probably because she hadn’t heard hiht He said, "I e had a sense of hoide the lines were I don’t knoe’re looking for a thread or a highway, even after all this time We could’ve been feet away froht have broken fron of the waitress He looked tired, up too late toohiht of in his head sounded like so he could actually say to him Adam wouldn’t tolerate pity

"We know they can be dowsed, so they can’t be that narrow," Adaainst his teht Gansey to Henrietta in the first place:and research Later, he’d tried to dowse the line more precisely with Ada rod and an electro the instruely a few ti rod twitch in his hands in ti by that point

I could tell hio to hell if he doesn’t cut back on his hours, Gansey thought, looking at the dark skin beneath Adam’s eyes If he made it about him, Adam wouldn’t interpret it as charity He considered how to fraood to h that in a second

Instead, Gansey said, "We need a solid point A before we even start thinking about point B"

But they had point A They even had point B The problee Gansey had a inia with the ley line marked darkly across it Like the ley-line enthusiasts in the UK, American ley-line seekers determined key spiritual places and drew lines between them until the arc of the ley line became obvious It seemed like all the work had been done for them already

But the creators of those maps had never meant for them to be used as road maps; they were too approxiton, DC, and Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, as possible reference points Each of those points was miles wide, and even the finest of pencil lines drawn on athe possibilities left them with thousands of acres where the ley line could be Thousands of acres where Glendower could be, if he was along the ley line at all

"I wonder," Adam mused aloud, "if we could electrify either the rods or the line Hook up a car battery to the until after college No, that would iuhts than at Ada of a torture session or a iven way to his brilliant-idea face The fatigueSo to make it louder and easier to follow"

It wasn’t an awful idea Last year in Montana, Gansey had interviewed a lightning-strike victi on his ATV in the doorway of a cattle barn when he was struck, and the incident had left hi indoors and an uncanny ability to follow one of the western ley lines using only a bent bit of radio antenna For two days, they’d trailed together across fields carved by glaciers andhidden water sources and tiny caves and lightning-burned stuely marked stones Gansey had tried to convince the boy to come back to the East Coast to perform his saical fear of the indoors ruled out all plane and car travel And it was a long walk

Still, it wasn’t an entirely useless exercise It was further proof of the amorphous theory Adam had just described: ley lines and electricity could be linked Energy and energy

Matchy matchy

As he moved up to the counter, Gansey beca strained and urgent Both were typical for Noah, so Gansey was not immediately troubled He passed a folded-over packet of bills to the cashier Noah continued to hover

"Noah, what?" demanded Gansey