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Helen was stony "I don’t want to hear it You didn’t get her anything"

"I didn’t say anything about it!"

"You called it glassware"

He asked, "What should I have said?"

"They’re not all glass This one I’ve found her is not glass"

"Then she won’t like it"

Helen’s face shifted frolowered at her GPS Gansey didn’t like to think of how lass plate He didn’t like to see either of the woood an to think about Blue Soh he couldn’t put his finger on it Taking a mint leaf from his pocket, Gansey put it into his mouth and watched the familiar Henrietta roads snake below them From the air, the curves looked less perilous than they felt in the Camaro What was it about Blue? Adam was not suspicious of her, and he was suspicious of everyone But then again, he was clearly infatuated That, too, was unfaround for Gansey

"Adam," he said There was no answer, and Gansey looked over his shoulder Adam’s headphones were looped around his neck, and he was leaned over beside Blue, pointing soround below As she’d shifted, Blue’s dress had gotten hitched up and Gansey could see a long, slender triangle of her thigh Adam’s hand was braced a few inches away on the seat, knuckles pale with his hatred of flying There was nothing particularly inti about the scene e, like he’d heard an unpleasant state about the words but the way they had made him feel

"Adam!" Gansey shouted

His friend’s head jerked up, face startled He hurried to pull his headset back on His voice ca about your o this ti maybe back to the church where I recorded the voice"

Adam handed Gansey a wrinkled piece of paper

Gansey flattened the paper and found a crude map "What’s this?"

"Blue"

Gansey looked at her intently, trying to decide if she had anything to gain byback around, he spread the paper flat on the controls in front of him "Make that happen, Helen"

Helen banked to follow the new direction The church Blue directed them toas probably forty minutes’ drive from Henrietta, but as the bird flew, it was only fifteen Without a quiet noise from Blue, Gansey would’ve rown A narrow line of an old, old stone as visible around it, as well as an iround where an additional wall inally been "That’s it?"

"That’s all there is left"

So inside Gansey went very still and quiet

He said, "What did you say?"

"It’s a ruin, but --"

"No," he said "Say precisely what you said before Please"

Blue cast a glance toward Adaed "I don’t remember what I said Was it … That’s all there is?"

That’s all

Is that all?

That hat had been nagging hinized her voice He knew that Henrietta accent, he knew that cadence

It was Blue’s voice on the recorder

Gansey

Is that all?

That’s all there is

"I’m not made out of fuel," Helen snapped, as if she’d already said it once, and Gansey had o froan to feel the press of responsibility, awe, soer than him At once he was anticipatory and afraid

"What’s the lay of the line, Blue?" Adaainst the glass as if she was , answered, "There Toward the mountains Fly … Do you see those two oak trees? The church is one point, and another point is right between theht line between those two, that’s the path"

If it had been Blue he’d been talking to on St Mark’s Eve, what did that mean?

"Are you certain?" This was Helen, in her brisk supercomputer voice "I only have an hour and a half of fuel"

Blue sounded a little indignant "I wouldn’t have said it if I wasn’t sure"

Helen smiled faintly and pushed the helicopter in the direction Blue had indicated

"Blue"

It was Ronan’s voice, for the first time, and everyone, even Helen, twisted their heads toward hierous So in his eyes was sharp as he stared at Blue He asked, "Do you know Gansey?"

Gansey re over and over again