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Blue looked defensive under their stares She said reluctantly, "Only his naether, elbows on his knees, Ronan leaned forward across Ada

"And how is it," he asked, "you came to know Gansey’s name?"

To her credit, Blue didn’t back down Her ears were pink, but she said, "First of all, get out of my face"

"What if I don’t?"

"Ronan," said Gansey

Ronan sat back

"I would like to know, though," Gansey said His heart felt like it weighed nothing at all

Looking down, Blue bunched a few of the layers of her iuess that’s fair" She pointed at Ronan She looked angry "But that is not the way to get ets inon your own I’ll -- look I’ll tell you how I knew your name if you explain to me what that shape is that you have in your journal"

"Tellwith terrorists?" Ronan asked

"Since when a so dicks"

"Not all of us," Ada a dick," Gansey said He was uncoht not like hi you want to know?"

Blue reached her hand out "Hold on, I’ll show you what I h the pages, she turned it to hie detailed an artifact he’d found in Pennsylvania He’d also doodled on it in several places

"I believe that is aa car," Gansey said

"Not that This" She pointed to one of the other doodles

"They’re ley lines" He stretched out a hand for the journal For a strange, hyperaware moment, he realized how closely she watched him as he took it He didn’t think it missed her notice how his left hand curved faer on his right hand knew just how es to spread where he wanted the-acquainted, and he wanted her to know

This is me The real me

He didn’t want to analyze the source of this ih the journal instead It took hie -- alines

He traced a finger over one line that stretched through New York City and Washington, DC Another intersecting line that stretched from Boston to St Louis A third that cut horizontally across the first two, stretching through Virginia and Kentucky and on west There was, as always, so that called to s

"These are the three main lines," Gansey said "The ones that seem to matter"

"Seem to matter how?"

"How much of this did you read?"

"Um Some A lot Most"

He continued, "The ones that seeinia is the one that connects us to the UK The United Kingdoht the gesture without turning his head "I knohat the UK is, thanks The public school systeain, with no effort at all He concurred, "Surely not Those other two lines have a lot of reports of unusual sightings on theeists and Moths"

But his hesitation was unnecessary; Blue didn’t scoff

"My mother drew that shape," she said "The ley lines So did Nee -- one of the other woh, only that it would be significant That’s why I wanted to know"

"Now you," Ronan said to Blue

"I -- saw Gansey’s spirit," she said "I’ve never seen one before I don’t see things like that, but this time, I did I asked you your name, and you told me ‘Gansey That’s all there is’ Honestly, it’s part of the reason why I wanted to co today"

This answer satisfied Gansey fairly well -- she was, after all, the daughter of a psychic, and it h it struck him as a partial answer Ronan de outside with one of my half aunts"

This seemed to satisfy Ronan as well, because he asked, "What’s the other half of her?"

"God, Ronan," Adah"

There was a mo whine of the helicopter They aiting, Gansey knew, for his verdict Did he believe her answer, did he think they should follow her directions, did he trust her?

Her voice was on the recorder He felt like he didn’t have a choice What he was thinking, but didn’t want to say with Helen listening in, was, You’re right, Ronan, it’s starting, so, Tell me what you think of her, Adam Tell me why you trust her Don’t ht But what he said was, "I’ht with each other froames This isn’t just for Blue, either All of us"

Ronan said, "I’est lie you’ve ever told"

Blue said, "Okay"

Gansey suspected that none of the completely honest with their replies, but at least he’d told the it on the record

The headsets fell silent as Adam, Blue, and Gansey all stared intently out theBelow the toy-like and quaint froht, a play-set of velvet fields and broccoli trees