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"He was just alive," he said helplessly "He just taught us four irregular verbs last week And you killed hi ht!" Adam shouted, but his face looked as miserable as Gansey felt "Now the ley line is awake and we can find Glendower on it and everything will be as it should be"

"We have to call the police We have to --"

"We don’t have to do anything We leave Whelk to be worn away, just like he left Noah"

Gansey turned away, sickened "What about justice?"

"That is justice, Gansey That’s the real thing This place is all about being real About being fair"

This all felt inherently wrong to Gansey It was like the truth, but turned sideways He kept looking at it, and looking at it, and it still had a young man dead who looked an awful lot like Noah’s crippled skeleton And then there was Ada in his eyes In the line of his ed froht of Whelk Ronan had an ugly bruise rising on his teet out of here," Blue said "Earthquakes and ani, but things are …"

"Yes," Gansey said "We need to go We can decide what to do about Whelk outside"

Wait

They all heard the voice this ti precisely what the voice had asked

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Though the trees could have meant any of the boys, Gansey felt as if the words were directly particularly at hi for?"

In response, there was a babble of Latin, words tu over one another Gansey crossed his arms over his chest, hands fisted They all looked at Ronan for a translation

"They said there’ve always been ru this spirit road," Ronan said His eyes held Gansey’s "They think he may be yours"

Chapter 48

It was a fine, sunny day at the very beginning of June when they buried Noah’s bones It had taken several weeks for the police department to finish their ith evidence, and so it was the end of the school year before the funeral took place A lot had taken place in between Whelk’s death and Noah’s funeral Gansey had recovered his journal fro tealionby’s satisfaction and unsuccessfully repaired the apartment door lock Adam, with probable help fro to St Agnes Church, a subtle distance that affected both boys in different ways Blue triu of ued the town of Henrietta a total of nine times, and the phone system failed almost half as h the attic and diss They’d told Blue that they still weren’t precisely sure what they’d done when they rearranged her ht

"We’d ed "But we seem to have disappeared her instead It’s possible she will reappear at some point"

And slowly their lives found an equilibriuh it didn’t seem they’d ever return to noric was real, Glendoas real, and so

"Jane, not to be blunt, but this is a funeral," Gansey said to Blue as she made her way across the field toward theroo any black wardrobe options, had hastily stitched a few yards of cheap black lace over a green T-shirt she’d converted into a dress a few months earlier She hissed furiously, "This was all the better I could do!"

"Like Noah cares," Ronan said

"Did you bring so else for later?" Gansey asked

"I’m not an idiot Where’s Ada later"

Noah’s bones were being buried in the Czerny farave lay near the edge of the long, sloping graveyard on the side of a rocky hill A tarp covered the fresh heap of dirt froht next to the hole The irls wept, but the woman stared off into the trees, dry-eyed Blue didn’t have to be a psychic, though, to see how sad the woman was Sad and proud

Noah’s voice, cool and barely there, whispered in her ear "Please say so to them"

Blue didn’t reply, but she turned her head in the direction of his voice She could nearly feel hi just behind her shoulder, breath on her neck, hand pressed anxiously to her arm

"You know I can’t," she replied in a low voice

"You have to"

"I would look like a crazy person What good would it do? What could I possibly say?"

Noah’s voice was faint but desperate His distress huh her "Please"