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"You ile and strange under the bruise It was easy to read hiht, but he really wasn’t either Noah was But Ada

But knowing those things about him didn’t help her answer the question: Should she tell hier of a kiss? It had been so much easier to tell Gansey, when it felt like it didn’t reallyshe wanted to do was to scare Adaht after she’d , there was a chance that he ht steal a kiss and then they’d both be in trouble

"I like it when you say those things, but -- I’m afraid you’ll kiss me," Blue admitted Already this seemed like an untenable path to set off on When he didn’t i, she hurried on, "We’ve just h, she lost her nerve to explain the prediction, but she wasn’t sure what part of her felt this was a better confession to blurt out I’ht words "Very sensible"

The precise adjective Neeve had found for Blue that very first week So she truly was sensible This was distressing She felt like she’d done so much work to appear as eccentric as possible, and still, when it came down to it, she was sensible

Both Ada the floor toward the under his ared beside Adahed heavily, as if he had been part of the conversation to this point and it tired him Blue was equal parts relieved and disappointed at his presence effectively ending any

"Do you want to hold her?" Ronan asked

That hen Blue discovered that the thing that Ronan was holding was alive For a briefbut conte the irony that one of the raven boys actually possessed a raven By then, it was clear that Ronan had decided the ansas no

"What are you doing?" Blue asked as he withdrew his hand "I want to"

She wasn’t exactly sure that she did -- the raven was not quite done-looking -- but it was ato impress Ronan only because he was impossible to impress, but she co in pursuit of his approval was holding a baby bird Ronan carefully bundled the raven into her cupped pal at all, and her skin and feathers felt humid where they’d been in contact with Ronan’s hands The raven tipped her huge head back and goggled at Blue and then Ada her was frightening and lovely; she was such a sainst Blue’s skin

Adaly, "Chainsaw"

The raven opened her beak wide, goggling even ain," Blue said, because it was clear that she did Ronan accepted the bird and stroked the feathers on the back of her head

"You look like a super villain with your familiar," Adam said

Ronan’s smile cut his face, but he looked kinder than Blue had ever seen him, like the raven in his hand was his heart, finally laid bare

They all heard a door open on the other side of the room Adam and Blue looked at each other Ronan ducked his head, just a little, as if he aiting for a blow

No one said anything as Noah settled down in the gap left between Ronan and Blue He looked as Blue remembered him, his shoulders hunched forward and his hands restlessly e on his face was clearly where his cheek had been ser she stared at hi his dead body and his live one That s those facts

Ada

"Noah," he said He lifted his fist

After a pause, Noah bumped knuckles with hi better," he said, as if he’d been ill instead of dead The things from the box were still spread out all over the floor between the that looked like a carved bit of bone; it er pattern on it once, but now all that was left was soe of an acanthus leaf and possibly soainst his throat like an amulet His eyes were averted from either of the other two boys, but his knee touched Blue’s

"I want you to know," Noah said, pressing the carved bone against his Adam’s apple, hard, as if it would squeeze the words from him, "I was …for a response Blue thought she knehat hephoto on the driver’s license Gansey had discovered was akin to a photocopy’s reseine the Noah she knew driving that tricked-out Mustang

"You’re enough now," Blue said "I missed you"

With a wan smile, Noah reached over and petted Blue’s hair, just like he used to She could barely feel his fingers

Ronan said, "Hey, ive o to my classes You never went to classes"

"But you did, didn’t you, Noah?" Blue interrupted, thinking of the Aglionby badge they’d found with his body "You were an Aglionby student"

"Are," Noah said

"Were," Ronan said "You don’t go to classes"

"Neither do you," Noah replied

"And he’s about to be a were, too," Adam broke in

"Okay!" Blue shouted, her hands in the air She was starting to feel a deep sensation of cold, as Noah pulled energy froet completely drained, like she had at the churchyard "The police said you’d been ht?"