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"Quite some eyes on her" It was an expression his dad used all the time, a family catchphrase for someone nosy

Adam asked, "Do you think she’s really here for Declan?"

"Why else would she be here?"

"Glendower," Adahed, but Ada, Adam twisted his hand and released the rubber ball He’d chosen his trajectory carefully: The ball bounced off the greasy asphalt once, struck one of the Ca in the black He stepped forward in ti noise

Adam said, "I don’t think you should talk to people about it anymore"

"It’s not a secret"

"Maybe it should be"

Adaically, there was nothing to support suspicion For four years, Gansey had been searching for Glendower, freely ad this fact to all and any who showed interest, and he’d never seen the slightest evidence of anyone else sharing his precise quest He had to adave hi

He said, "It’s all out there, Ada I’ve done is public record It’s too late for it to be a secret It was too late years ago"

"Come on, Gansey," Adam said with some heat "Don’t you feel it? Don’t you feel …?"

"Feel what?" Gansey despised fighting with Adaht

Unsuccessfully, Adahts into words Finally, he replied: "Observed"

Across the parking lot, Noah had finally eed from Nino’s and he slouched toward them In the Camaro, Ronan’s silhouetted form lay back in the seat, head tilted as if he slept Close by, Gansey could srass mowed for the first ti to life beneath last year’s fallen leaves, and water running over rocks in mountain crooks where hu pregnant about the night, he thought, so its eyes

This time, when Adam dropped the ball, it was Gansey’s hand that reached out to snap it up

"Do you think there would be any point to soht track?"

Chapter 8

By the tiuished her anxiety She sucked in a huge breath of the cool night air It didn’t even seeh Nino’s air-conditioning vents

She tilted her head back to look at the stars Here, on the edge of don, there weren’t enough streetlights to obliterate the stars completely Ursa Major, Leo, Cepheus Her breaths came easier and sloith each familiar constellation she found

The chain was cold as Blue unlocked her bike Across the parking lot, muffled conversations faded in and out Footsteps scuffed across the asphalt somewhere close behind her Even when they were quiet, people really were the noisiest animals

One day, she would live someplace where she could stand outside her house and see only stars, no streetlights, where she could feel as close as she ever got to sharing her ed at her, soed her to see more than stars, to e from it But it never made sense She only ever saw Leo and Cepheus, Scorpio and Draco Maybe she just neededwas, she didn’t really want to see the future What she wanted was to see so no one else could see or would see, and ic than was in the world

"Excuse me, um, miss -- hi"

The voice was careful, es sanded off Blue turned with a lukewaraunter and older in the distant streetlight He was alone No sign of President Cell Phone, the sy one, or their hostile friend One hand steadied his bike The other was tucked neatly in his pocket His uncertain posture didn’t quite track with the raven-breasted sweater, and she caught a glied it under his ear as if he was cold

"Hi," Blue said, softer than she would’ve if she hadn’t noticed the fray She didn’t knohat sort of Aglionby boy wore hand-ave a jerky, abashed nod Blue looked at his bike She didn’t knohat sort of Aglionby boy rode a bicycle instead of driving a car, either

"I was on nized you over here I wanted to say sorry About what happened earlier I didn’t tell him to do that and I wanted you to know"