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"Please," Blue said, because even if Noah hadn’t told her, she would’ve known

Heinto his bedsheets and waved a hand at the air Blue crouched by the bed and leaned on her arms at the head of it

"What now? With a lot less pillow in your mouth this time?"

Gansey didn’t turn his head, so his voice re tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them Can you believe I’m only alive because Noah died? What a fine sacrifice that hat a fine contribution to the world I aesture without re his face from his pillow It was probablyHe went on, "Oh, I know I’nore me So Malory thinks it is a bad idea to wake the ley line? Of course he does I enjoy dead ends hugely"

"You are being self-pitying" But Blue sort of liked it She’d never seen anything like the real Gansey for so long at one time It was too bad he had to be miserable to make it happen

"I’m nearly done You don’t have much more of this to bear"

"I like you better this way"

For soht away; she was very glad that he still had his face pressed into his pillow and the other boys were still in Noah’s room

"Crushed and broken," Gansey said "Just the ouy was badly hurt?"

"Yes"

"Well, then, that’s off" He rolled over onto his back so that he was looking at Blue upside dohere she leaned on his bed "It’s not worth the risk"

"I thought you said you needed to find Glendower"

"I do," Gansey said "They don’t"

"So you’ll do it yourself?"

"No, I’ll find another way I would love to have the ley line’s power pointing giant arrows to where he is, but I’ll just keep plodding along the old way What sort of hurt was this guy?"

BlueMalory’s exhortation to spare hi, as if staring were easier when their faces were upside down to each other

"He said so his skin and then, apparently, his skin came off Malory didn’t want me to tell you that"

Gansey’s mouth pursed "He still reri across the floor

Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, "If you spit, Blue, it would land right in his eye"

Ganseyswiftness, glancing at Adaain as quickly "Blue said Malory tried to wake the line and theit Not right now"

Adam said, "I don’t care about the risk"

Ronan picked his teeth "Me neither"

"You have nothing to lose," Gansey said, pointing at Adam He looked at Ronan "And you don’t care if you live or die That ain," Blue pointed out "That ree I mean, look at what happened to your British friend"

"Thank you, Jane, for being the voice of reason," Gansey said "Do not look atup the ley line is the only way to find Glendower?"

"We don’t have time to find another way," Adae Plus, he speaks Latin What if the trees know? If he finds Glendower, he gets the favor, and he gets aith killing Noah Gauy takes all"

All trace of vulnerability had vanished fros over the side of the bed "It’s a bad idea, Ada someone, and I’m for it Until then -- ait"

"We don’t have time," Adam said "Persephone said someone ake the ley line in just a few days"

Gansey stood up "Ada now is that someone on the other side of the world has no skin because he fooled around with the ley line We’ve seen Cabeswater This isn’t a ga with it"

He held Ada unfa that made Blue think that she didn’t really know hile tarot card to her mother, and as she remeht, sadly, My ood at what she does