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At her na and back into the clearing She said, "Noah’s throwing up"

"Why is he doing that?" Gansey asked "Is he sick?"

"I’ll ask hi"

Gansey winced

"I think you’ll find that Gansey prefers the word vohtly

"I think retching is the most specific word, in this case," Blue corrected pointedly

"Retching!" said Ronan without concern; this, finally, was so about "Where is he? Noah!" He pushed away fro and started back the way that Blue had co rod in Gansey’s hands "Was that in the car? A dowsing rod!"

He shouldn’t have been surprised she knehat it was; even if she wasn’t psychic, her mother was, and this was technically a tool of the trade "The trunk"

"But thatfor the ley line!"

On the other side of the Mustang, Adah the pollen on the side of the car He looked disquieted "And they decided it was lanced up at the trees around them, then back at the expensive car In the distance, he heard the low voices of Ronan and Noah "I think we’d better go I think we need o out the following Sunday -walking days Actually, Sundays and Thursdays were dog-walking days, but Blue had begged off the previous teeks to spend ti tis-by-proxy The proble distinctly low on inning to weigh on her It had gotten so that she couldn’t look her mother in the eye over dinner, but it was i up the boys She had to find a way to reconcile the two

But first, she had to walk the dogs

On the way out to Willow Ridge, the phone in the kitchen rang and Blue, a glass of cloudy apple juice in one hand and the laces of a high-top sneaker in the other, grabbed it

"Hello?"

"I’d like to speak to Blue, please, if she’s in"

It was Gansey’s unold Clearly, he had knohat he risked calling here, and clearly, he had been prepared to speak to so suspicion that her secrecy couldn’t last, she wasn’t sure how she felt about the fact that he could’ve blown her cover

"Blue is getting ready to go walk other people’s dogs," she said, setting down the juice and tugging on the sneaker, phone shoved between her ear and shoulder "And it’s a good thing you got her and not someone else"

"I was prepared for that eventuality," Gansey said It was strange to hear him over the phone; his voice didn’t quite sound like his face looked "Still, I’? Well, I trust?"

He doesn’t , Blue told herself She told herself several ti today and Ronan’s at church with his brothers, but I’d like to go out and just … look around" He added, quickly, "Not to the woods I was thinking maybe to that church on your ? It took Blue aif she wanted to go with him It took her another moment to realize that she’d never been anywhere with his"

"Oh," Gansey replied, sounding deflated "Well, okay"

"But it’ll only take an hour"

"Oh," he repeated, about fourteen shades brighter "Shall I pick you up, then?"

Blue glanced furtively over her shoulder toward the living roo lot"

"Brilliant," he said again "Top shelf I think this’ll be interesting See you in an hour"

Top shelf? Gansey without Adam -- Blue wasn’t certain how this would work Despite Adam’s tentative interest in her, the boys seele, multiheaded entity To see any of theerous

But there wasn’t an option of not going with Gansey She wanted to explore asup than she heard her na called

"Bloo-OOOO-oooooo, my child, my child, co rhyth sensation, Blue followed it into the living roo what Blue suspected were screwdrivers When she walked into the room, the women all looked up at her with indolent smiles A pack of lionesses

Blue raised her eyebrows at the cocktails The h the s turned the drinks a brilliant, translucent yellow "It’s only ten o’clock"

Calla reached out, enclosing Blue’s wrist with her fingers, and dragged her onto the lass was already mostly eo walk dogs," Blue said

From her blue-striped chair across the room, Maura sipped her screwdriver and made a wild face "Oh, Persephone You make them with far too much vodka"

"My hand always slips," Persephone said sadly from a wicker bench in front of the