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"That’s the way to the corpse ro -- the ley line," she explained, pointing at her scratchy map "The church is on the ley line"

"You’re sure?"

Blue gave hi to believe ’!"

Adarin, an expression so unlike his usual one that his features needed to co quiet, do you?"

The way he said it, she could tell that he was impressed with her in the way that men were usually impressed with Orla Blue very much liked that, especially since she hadn’t had to do anything other than be herself to earn it "Nothing worth doing"

"Well," he said, "I think you’ll find I do pretty uess we’ll be fine"

It turned out that she had walked or biked past Gansey’s apartle day of the year, on the way to school and to Nino’s As they walked toward the lint of the Ca lot and, only a hundred yards away, a glistening navy blue helicopter

She hadn’t really believed the part about the helicopter Not in a way that prepared her for seeing an actual, life-sized helicopter, sitting there in the lot, looking normal, like someone would park an SUV

Blue stopped in her tracks and breathed, "Whew"

"I know," Adaain Blue had a strange shock of reconciling the ie of him as a spirit and the reality of hi out toward the those idiotic Top-Siders she’d noticed at the reading, this tio shorts and a yellow polo shirt that ency, so long as the e onto a yacht In his hand he held a container of organic apple juice

He pointed his no-pesticides juice at Blue "Are you co, Blue felt cheap and s her Henrietta vowels as best as she could, she answered, "Co in the helicopter you just happen to have at your beck and call, youa burnished leather backpack over his burnished cotton shoulders His sracious and inclusive, as if her mother hadn’t recently refused to assist him in any way, as if she hadn’t just been borderline rude "You say that like it’s a bad thing"

Behind hian to roar to life Adam stretched out the journal to Gansey, who looked startled Just a tiny bit of his coh for Blue to see once more that it was part of his President Cell Phone mask

"Where was it?" yelled Gansey

And he had to yell Now that it was running, the blades of the helicopter didn’t so ainst Blue’s ears,than sound

Adam pointed at Blue

"Thanks," Gansey shouted back It was a default answer, she saw; he fell back onto his powerful politeness when he was taken by surprise Also, he was still watching Ada his cues from him as to how he should react to her Adam nodded, once, briefly, and the mask slipped just a little more Blue wondered if the President Cell Phone demeanor ever vanished completely when he was around his friends Maybe the Gansey she’d seen in the churchyard hat lay beneath

That was a sobering thought

The air rumbled around them Blue felt like her dress would fly away She asked, "Is this thing safe?"

"Safe as life," Gansey replied "Adahten your liberty bodice and come on" As he ducked to approach the helicopter, his shirt, too, flapped against his back

Blue was suddenly a little nervous It wasn’t that she was scared, exactly It was just that she hadn’t psychologically prepared herself for leaving the ground with a bunch of raven boys when she’d woken up thisThe helicopter, for all its size and noise, see to trust her life to, and the boys felt like strangers Now, it felt like she was truly disobeying Maura

"I’ve never flown," she confessed to Adam, a shout to be heard over the whine of the helicopter

"Ever?" Adaht against her ear so that she could hear him He so all the way from her belly button to her feet

"I’ve flown once," he replied His breath was hot on her skin Blue was paralyzed; all she could think was This is how close a kiss is It felt every bit as dangerous as she’d iined He added, "I hated it"

A moment passed, both of them motionless She needed to tell him that he couldn’t kiss her -- just in case he was her true love -- but how could she? How could she tell a boy that before she even knew if he wanted to kiss her at all?

She felt him take her hand His pal

At the door to the helicopter, Gansey looked back over his shoulder at the hands