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Calla interrupted "A secret killed your father and you knohat it was"

The roo at Calla Gansey and Ada at Calla’s hand

Maura often called on Calla to do joint tarot readings, and Persephone sometimes called on her to interpret her dreams, but very rarely did anyone ask Calla to use one of her strangest gifts: psychometry Calla had an uncanny ability to hold an object and sense its origin, feel its owner’s thoughts, and see places the thing had been

Now, Calla pulled her hand away; she’d reached to touch Ronan’s tattoo right where itto where her fingers had been

There ht have only been Ronan and Calla in the roo beside her, like a lanky wildcat not yet up to weight She was a lioness

She hissed, "What are you?"

Ronan’s s empty in it

"Ronan?" Gansey asked, concern in his voice

"I’ in the car" Without further coh that the dishes in the kitchen rattled

Gansey turned an accusatory gaze on Calla "His father’s dead"

"I know," Calla said Her eyes were slits

Gansey’s voice was cordial enough to pass straight through polite and on to rude "I don’t kno you found out, but that’s a pretty lousy thing to throw at a kid"

"At a snake, you mean," Calla snarled back "And what is it you ca you for? He asked for a specific I gave him a specific I’m sorry it wasn’t puppies"

"Calla," Maura said, at the sa directly into Gansey’s ear and then leaned back A bone moved at Gansey’s jawline Blue saw him shift back into President Cell Phone; she hadn’t been aware, before, that he’d been anything else Now she wished she’d been paying better attention, so she could’ve seen as different about him

Gansey said, "I’ here in the first place I wasn’t trying to insinuate that you were less than genuine Can we continue?"

He sounded so old, Blue thought So forht There was so about hi about Gansey uard her eainst him She could not like him, or whatever it was about these boys that drowned out herwould overwhellowering Calla when she said it

As Blue lie, the sort of orange Orla would definitely paint her nails It was not exactly what she’d have expected an Aglionby boy to drive -- they liked new, shiny things, and this was an old, shiny thing -- but it was clearly a raven boy’s car nonetheless And just then, Blue had a falling sensation, like things were happening too fast for her to properly absorb the odd and coht -- odd and complicated in the way that the journal was odd and complicated Their lives were soet herself stuck in the very edge of it Whether that so to be done in the future seemed irrelevant In this room with Maura and Calla and Persephone, time felt circular

She stopped in front of Gansey This close, she again caught the scent of mint, and that made Blue’s heart trip unsteadily

Gansey looked down at the fanned deck of cards in her hands When she saw him like that, she saw the bend of his shoulders and the back of his head, and she piercingly remembered his spirit, the boy she’d been afraid she’d fall in love with That shade hadn’t worn any of the effortless, breezy confidence of this raven boy in front of her

What happens to you, Gansey? she wondered When do you become that person?

Gansey looked up at her, and there was a crease between his eyebrows "I don’t kno to choose Could you pick a card for me? Will that work?"

Out of the corner of her eye, Blue saw Ada

Persephone answered from behind Blue "If you want it to"

"It’s about intention," Maura added

"I want you to," he said "Please"

Blue fanned the cards across the table; they slithered loosely over the finish She let her fingers float above them Once, Maura had told her that the correct cards soers were near them For Blue, of course, each card felt identical One, however, had slid farther than the others, and that was the one she chose

As she flipped it over, she let out a little helpless laugh

The page of cups looked back at Blue with her own face It felt like so at her, but she had no one to blame for the selection of the card but herself

When Maura saw it, her voice went still and remote "Not that one Make him choose another"

"Maura," said Persephoneher

"Another one," she insisted

"What’s wrong with that one?" Gansey asked

"It has Blue’s energy on it," Maura said "It wasn’t meant to be yours You’ll have to pick it yourself"