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"Go? Where?" Blue asked

"Prison," Gansey said agreeably The other two boys were already jostling her toward the Pig He felt high as a kite, euphoric "The dentist Someplace awful"

"I have to be back by …" But she trailed off "I don’t knohen Sometime reasonable?"

"What’s reasonable?" Adaet you back before you turn into a pumpkin" Gansey was about to add Blue to the end of this statee to call her that "Is Blue a nicknaot suddenly pointy

Hurriedly, Gansey added, "Not that it’s not a cool name Just that it’s … unusual"

"Weird-ass" This was from Ronan, but he said it as he chewed absently on one of the leather straps on his wrist, so the effect wasnor his smooth chin with its recently assassinated chin hairs, he studied her She barely ca as he, every bit as present Gansey had a sense of incredible rightness, then, with everyone asse piece that he’d been needing all these years, like the search for Glendoasn’t truly underway until she was part of it She was right like Ronan had been right, like Adaht When each of them had joined him, he’d felt a rush of relief, and in the helicopter, he’d felt exactly the same hen he’d realized it was her voice on the recorder

Of course, she could still walk away

She won’t, he thought She has to feel it, too

He said, "I’ve always liked the name Jane"

Blue’s eyes widened "Ja -- what? Oh! No, no You can’t just go around nas because you don’t like their real name"

"I like Blue just fine," Gansey said He didn’t believe she was really offended; her face didn’t look like it had at Nino’s when they’d first ht, possibly, he was getting a little better at not offending her, although he couldn’t see her "Some of my favorite shirts are blue However, I also like Jane"

"I’ the door of the Camaro, he pushed the driver seat forward Adam obediently cli to that"

But she got in Ronan retrieved his MP3 player froer seat, and even though the Pig’s after, Ronan kicked the dash until a loudly obnoxious electronic track caed open the driver’s side door Really, he should be lionby kicked him out But instead, he shouted for Noah one last time and then climbed into the car

"Your sense of what constitutes cool htful," he told Ronan

Froasoline?"

"Only when it’s running!" Gansey called back

"Is this thing safe?"

"Safe as life"

Ada to tell us how she knehere the ley line was," Gansey said "We’re going to strategize and decide what the next y Ada you remember about tiain what you’d found out about dreaain, I want to find out everything we can aboutsure it’s safe"

But that wasn’t what happened What happened was they drove to Harry’s and parked the Camaro next to an Audi and a Lexus and Gansey ordered flavors of gelato until the table wouldn’t hold any more bowls and Ronan convinced the staff to turn the overhead speakers up and Blue laughed for the first ti Gansey said and they were loud and trius of Henrietta, because they’d found the ley line and because it was starting, it was starting

Chapter 25

Gansey, energized, set the boys out on Glendower-related tasks for the next three days, and to Ada for each of the them a secret, because she never contacted the boys by phone or met up with the and psychic ability, they all had schedules largely dictated by school, so they ed to , however, did not include going back to the strange wood Instead, they spent ti out ned the land underneath the raven Looking upto deter the history of Glendower Marking the ley line on thearound in fields, turning over rocks, y that came from them

They also ate a lot of cheap food from convenience stores; this was Blue’s fault After that first triu for all of her food herself, which limited where they could eat She despised when any of the boys tried to buy food for her, but she seemed to hate it the most when Gansey offered

At one store, Gansey had started to pay for Blue’s potato chips and she’d snatched them away

"I don’t want you to buy me food!" Blue said "If you pay for it, then it’s like I’ested pleasantly

"Don’t put words in my mouth"