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Blue closed her eyes

"Tell her I’m sorry I drank her birthday schnapps," Noah whispered

God, Noah!

"What are you doing?" Gansey reached out and caught her ar ed free As Blue approached Noah’s family, she rehearsed ways to make herself sound less insane, but she didn’t like any of theh to suspect how this would go Noah, only for you … She eyed the sad, proud woman Up close, her makeup was i was knotted and painted and sprayed under control All of that sadness was shoved so deep inside her that her eyes weren’t even red Blue wasn’t fooled

"Mrs Czerny?"

Both of Noah’s parents’ heads turned to her Blue self-consciously ran a hand down one of the pieces of lace "I’ent I, uh, wanted to say that I’m sorry for your loss Also, my mother’s a psychic I have a" -- already their expressions were transfore from your son"

Immediately, Mrs Czerny’s face darkened She merely shook her head and said, quite calmly, "No, you don’t"

"Please don’t do this," said Mr Czerny It was taking all he had to be civil, which was better than she’d expected Blue felt bad for having interrupted their private o"

Tell her, whispered Noah

Blue took a breath "Mrs Czerny, he’s sorry for drinking your birthday schnapps"

For a moment there was silence Mr Czerny and Noah’s sisters looked from Blue to Noah’s mother Noah’s father opened his mouth, and then Mrs Czerny started to cry

None of therave

Later, they dug hied beside his BMW with its hood ajar, acting as both roadblock and look out Adam operated the backhoe Gansey had rented for the occasion And Gansey transferred Noah’s bones to a duffel bag while Blue shone the flashlight over them to be certain they were all there Adarave identical to the one they’d begun with

When they ran back to the BMW, giddy and breathless with their crime, Ronan told Gansey, "This will all co for Congress"

"Shut up and drive, Lynch"

They reburied his bones at the old ruined church, which was Blue’s idea

"No one will bother them here," she said, "And we know it’s on the ley line And it’s holy ground"

"Well," said Ronan, "I hope he likes it I’ve pulled awatch"

"Openingthe last of the bones, they stood quietly inside the ruined walls Blue stared at Gansey, in particular, his hands in his pockets, his head tilted dohere they had just interred Noah It felt like no time and all the time in the world since she’d seen his spirit walk this very path

Gansey That’s all there is

She wouldn’t, she vowed, be the one to kill hio home? This place is so creepy"

Euphoric, they all spun Noah, rumpled and familiar, was framed in the arched doorway of the church,him Solid in form, anyway He peered around the crumbled walls with a tiladly

Blue hurled her arms around his neck He looked alarmed, and then pleased, and then he pet the tufts of her hair

"Czerny," Ronan said, trying out the word

"No," Noah protested, around Blue’s aro?"

Gansey’s face broke into a relieved, easy grin "Yes, we can go ho out of the church with Blue

Ronan, still in the ruins, looked over his shoulder at thehts, the tattooed hook that edged out above his collar looked like either a claw or a finger or part of a fleur-de-lis It was nearly as sharp as his sood time to tell you," he said "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams"