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Blue asked, "Is it as painful as conversations with Ronan?"

Gansey cast a glance over to Ronan, as a small, indistinct forh

"Depends on if Ronan is sober," Gansey answered

Ada"

"Trust Lynch to deface a place like this fivehis territory"

"He inia than your father, then"

"I don’t think he’s ever used an indoor toilet, now that I consider it"

This all see of one another by last na about outdoor urinary habits It also see ti the subject back to Glendower "They’d really go to all this trouble to hide his body?"

Gansey said, "Well, Ned Kelly"

He delivered the nonsensical statement so matter-of-factly that Blue felt abruptly stupid, as if

Then Adalance toward Blue, "Nobody knoho Ned Kelly is, either, Gansey"

"Really?" Gansey asked, so innocently startled by this that it was clear that Ada "He was an Australian outlaw When the British caught his with his body I think the chief of police used his head as a paperweight for a while Just think what Glendower’s enemies would do to hi resurrected, they would’ve wanted his body unmolested"

"Why the ht on the shore?"

This see to her, he turned to Adam "I called Malory about that ritual, to see if he’d tried it He said he didn’t think it could be perforuessed it had to be done on the ‘heart’ of it, where thethat someplace like that is also where they’d want Glendower"

Aday?"

The question took her by surprise "What?"

"You said that you s louder for other psychics," Aday?"

Blue was absurdly pleased that he remembered, and also absurdly pleased that he’d replied to her instead of Gansey, as noatting gnats out of his eyes and waiting for her response

"Yes," she said "I guess Ibattery"

"You’re the table everyone wants at Starbucks," Gansey ain

Blue blinked "What?"

Over his shoulder, Gansey said, "Next to the wall plug" He pressed the EMF reader into the side of a tree and observed both objects with great interest

Ada that she could ular part of the ley line into a doable place for the ritual Wait, are we going in the woods? What about Helen?"

"It hasn’t been two seconds," Gansey said, although it clearly had been "That’s an interesting idea about the energy Though -- can your battery get drained? By things other than conversations about prostitution?"

She didn’t dignify this coht about how herto fear fro The church watch had obviously taken so from her; maybe there orse consequences that she had yet to discover

"Well, this is interesting," Gansey ree of the trees It was really just water that had bubbled up frorass Gansey’s attention was focused entirely on the EMF reader he held directly above the water The ly Ronan had rejoined them, and both boys looked in the direction of the helicopter

"I said this is interesting," Gansey repeated

"And I said Helen"

"Just a couple of yards"

"She’ll be angry"

Gansey’s expression was baleful, and Blue could see iainst it

"I did tell you," Adaishly out of the woods frowoods With Gansey in the lead, they all followed the water into the trees Irees Blue hadn’t realized how much insect noise there was in the field until it was replaced by occasional birdsong under the trees This was a beautiful, old wood, all reat slabs of cracked stone Ferns sprang frorew up the sides of the tree trunks The air itself was scented with green and growing and water The light was golden through the leaves Everything was alive, alive