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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉 NAME: Sam AGE: 23 JOURNAL: rides_thebeast IM / EMAIL: midnightlullabii @ aim PLURK: midnightlullabii RETURNING: Yes - Hayley Marshall-Kenner ( increscents ) 〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉 CHARACTER NAME: Blue Sargent CHARACTER AGE: 17 SERIES: The Raven Cycle CHRONOLOGY: end of Blue Lily, Lily Blue CLASS: Hero HOUSING: random within De Chima BACKGROUND: ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴀᴠᴇɴ ʙᴏʏs Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she had been told she would kill her true love. All her life, Blue has grown up surrounded by women. She lives with her mother and various aunts, cousins, friends, etc. Whatever kind of wayward women the house at 300 Fox Way has collected. It was the women closest to Blue that held the true secrets of 300 Fox Way, though. Maura- her mother, Jimi- her mother's sister, Orla- her cousin, and Calla and Persephone- close friends of Maura. These women were all psychics and openly so. They ran a psychic business out of their home, doing readings for anyone who came to them. They even had a phone set up for call in readings to be done. Often these reading would predict vague things. These things were always true, but sometimes they could be brushed aside. A chuckle at the coincidence of one of their predictions coming true. Yet the women of the house were never wrong, whether believed or not. Living surrounded by such women, it was only natural that Blue's own future had been predicted once. Or twice. Or many times over. All with the same outcome: if Blue kissed her true love, he would die. Not when. If. This did give Blue some degree of control over the kiss. The kiss was not necessarily inevitable. All she had to do was aboid boys and kissing boys. And for most of the first 16 years of her life, this had been easy to do. Boys never took up Blue's mind and love seemed like an abstract thought than a potential inevitibality. It wasn't until Neeve Sargent, half sister to Maura Sargent, arrived on their doorstep from out of town that Blue's world would change drastically with a single sentence: This is the year you will fall in love. Every year Maura and Blue would go to the isolated churchyard late at night on St. Mark's Eve. April 24th, and even April 25th, were days that came and went without event for most people every year. It was not a holiday celebrated on any calendar, or even a holiday that received much acknowledgment. But for the women of 300 Fox Way it was a night when the soon to be dead would walk. Maura would witness the spirits of those that would die within the next year from their local town of Henrietta. She would recite these names, and often ask if she did not recognize the person, and Blue would record them. Then they would inform their regular customers who wished to know if they would pass within the next year so that they might get their affairs in order. Blue's role was to help take down the names, but also to act as human battery she was. Blue amplified the energy around her, making Maura's psychic abilities stronger and the dead louder so that she might her. Blue was no psychic herself, but she could aid her family in this way. This year was different. This year it was Neeve and Blue who attended the St. Mark's Eve tradition. This year the night was colder. This year Neeve drew out a symbol in the dirt that Maura had drawn in the shower that morning. Neither knew the symbol, only that they dreamt it. Blue and Neeve sat, they waited, they talked about the bastards of Aglionby Academy ( the local all-boys private school ), and finally the dead began to walk. As always, Blue saw nothing. She simply recorded while Neeve questioned everyone as she was not local and recognized few faces. Sometimes Blue knew the spelling of a name, sometimes she did her best if she was unsure. All the while they both continued. So far, all was normal. This year was different because Blue saw one of the dead herself. Only one. A boy. He was young and wore an Aglionby Academy sweater. He did not answer Neeve, so Blue was tasked with asking his name. Blue followed him along his walk to the church, trying to get him to answer her. At last he turned back to her and she saw the rain that spattered his sweater and clothes and smelled the faint memory of mint. She asked his name again and he finally replied. Gansey. Is that all? That's all there is. Once he had disappeared Blue asked Neeve why she had seen the boy. She was no psychic, after all. Neeve explained there were only two reasons a non-seer would see the dead on St. Mark's Eve. Either Blue was Gansey's true love, or Blue would be the one to kill Gansey. Unknown to Blue, at that exact same time at another church Richard Campbell Gansey II sat outside recording his entire night in hopes that he might glimpse the dead. Nothing happened for Gansey. Gansey was a man on a mission. A mission that involved searching for a dead or sleeping or whatever king by the name of Glendower. Gansey's hunt for the king had brought him to Henrietta, a town located on a ley line that connected with Wales. The ley lines were mystical lines of energy that connected the world and held magic in them, and Gansey believed the king to be taken from Wales after rebelling against the English to be laid to rest where he might never be disturbed. But legend told that whoever woke the king would be granted a favor. Whether it was the favor Gansey sought or simple knowledge, it didn't matter. What did matter was that the hunt for Glendower took Gansey to many strange places, and seeking the dead in a churchyard on St. Mark's Eve was not the strangest of them. The night had proceeded uneventfully. It wasn't until the next day that he played back the recording from the night before that he discovered something. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Then finallyL Gansey. Is that all?. That's all there is. The strangeness of it was not missed on Gansey because Gansey hadn't spoken at all during the night. He had never said these words, and there had never been a girl with him who spoke as well. Having shared this with his friends, the men resolved to see a psychic to learn more about their quest and find out who the woman's voice belonged to. Meanwhile, Blue slept through school the next day recovering from her previous night. While she had talked with Gansey, spirits had walked through her and drawn on her energy while they had. It left Blue so exhausted she didn't wake when her mother tried the next morning. Eventually, she did recover and went downstairs to question her family about what had occurred. Neeve offered to try to discover what kills the boy so as to put Blue's mind at ease, but Maura warned Neeve she would not be responsible for whatever Neeve saw. Sure enough, Neeve attempted to scry for the boy but he only ended up disappearing from her vision with no warning. Maura explained that this was a side-effect of Henrietta. Sometimes she could not see things. Sometimes she could see things she didn't expect. Something about Henrietta was not quite right, in the end. The mystery of Gansey's death unsolved, Blue left for one of her many jobs. She dog walked, she made wreaths for the Society for Ladies Perpetual Health, she taught penmanship to third graders, replaced bedding plants for elderly ladies, and she worked as a waitress at a local pizza shop known as Nino's. Blue's family did not come from money, and tended more towards the poorer side. Which meant Blue worked for all money for all the things she wanted personally. Her other jobs were more where Blue's heart was, it Nino's that was meant to look legitimate on a resume. And it was Nino's she struggled with the most, because unfortunately the pizza shop was a local hotspot for Aglionby boys. It was always filled to the brim with the boys, and Blue had no love for them. Gansey, Adam, Ronan, and Noah were no different in her mind. In his more human state, Blue didn't recognize the boy from the churchyard. But she did notice him immediately for different reasons. Gansey radiated leadership. The other boys fell in around him while he talked on his cell phone and requested their table all at once. Blue dubbed him President Cell Phone and avoided him as another waitress took her table. Meanwhile Maura called her to inform her that Gansey from the church had called to schedule an appointment the next day. Blue felt a rush of excitement at the idea of meeting the real Gansey, only to turn around and find President Cell Phone behind her. He explained that his friend, Adam- a rather cute dusty-haired boy that looked appalled and embarrassed back at the table, was interested in Blue. President Cell Phone asked if Blue might spend time with them, to which Blue replied she had to work. Ever tactful, President Cell Phone offered to compensate her for the money she'd lose leaving her shift and to talk to her manager so that she could. Blue was flabbergasted by the offer. She accused President Cell Phone of treating her like a prostitute, loudly enough that Ronan laughed back at the table and Adam shrank back even more with red ears. President Cell Phone was quickly explained he had not meant it that way, but the damage was done and Blue refused to meet with the boys. Later that night, Blue was leaving the restaurant when Adam rode by on a bike. Having seen her out, Adam decided to stop and apologize for his friend. He had wanted to talk to Blue, and President Cell Phone hadn't meant any harm. President Cell Phone just didn't quite understand money. Blue was taken with how sweet Adam was and how much more real he seemed compared to his friends. Against her better judgement, she gave her phone number to Adam so that he might call her. All her life she had spent her time avoiding boys, and for once she gave into it. After Adam left a coworker rushed out carrying a large notebook and asking if Blue knew anything about it. She recognized it from earlier, realizing the boys at the table had had it with them. She didn't know which boy it belonged to, but it was thick and leather bound. Blue offered to take the book, saying she knew whose it was and would return it to them, before finally setting off for home. That night Blue went to bed, only to wake an hour and a half before her alarm. As she tried to go back to sleep, she overheard Maura and Neeve. Maura told Neeve off for looking at Henrietta, for digging too deep. Neeve was only meant to help look for someone, but Neeve insisted that if something happened then it might be connected to the missing person. As they talked they walked up creaking stairs that drowned half their conversation, but eventually Blue guessed at the someone. Her dad. Blue was certain Neeve and Maura were searching for her father. Her mythical father who might as well be Santa Claus for all his mystery. Maura had never given a name or any details of him, and that Maura looked now was a mystery to Blue as well. The conversation ended too soon and no more answers were given and eventually Blue fell back asleep. The next morning Blue woke to the excitement of finally seeing who this Gansey was whose fate was tied to her own. She got ready for school and also thumbed through the journal. She learned some the night before and some now about the contents, but it seemed the book was about a king. About Glendower and waking him and a potential favor. It all seemed strange but somehow thrilling. Curious, Blue took it to Persephone for insight. The ever-distant Persephone deemed immediately it was the journal of a boy who was searching for something, and had Blue been the one to do the search she would have found it by now. When Blue asked how she should proceed, Persephone advised she find the owner of the journal then find if the contents were true or not. After school that day, Blue immediately set on asking Maura about the true reason Neeve was here. Maura dodged the question, answering only that Neeve was there to help her find something. Someone. Blue had no intention of letting the subject died, but an interruption brought the whole house to a pause. A man had walked into the house, asking for a reading. It wasn't that people searching for readings were uncommon, it was that there was something inherently off about this man from the start. Yet Persephone offered him a triple reading, where Calla, Maura, and Persephone used their decks to draw his fate and interpret together. Blue sat in with them while they did this. The man refused to ask a question, but instead asked them to see it all for him. Together they spelled out his life. He'd lost someone. Many things. Over a woman, his father's business scandal. He was searching for something. Here the man became intrigued. He was searching for something. He asked when he would find it. The women drew their cards. Page of Cups. One. Two. Three. All three of the cards were the Page of Cups. It unsettled Blue if only because Maura had always said the Page of Cups was Blue's card, that the woman on the card looked like Blue. The women went quiet, interpreting the cards. Then Maura announced the reading done. She demanded the man leave, tempers suddenly rising, and Call backed Maura up. The man was not pleased, but did in fact leave. After he left, Maura warned Blue to stay away from the man and leave should he ever come near her. Finally, Gansey showed up for his reading with Adam and Ronan behind him. He was late. Blue recognized his voice the moment he stepped into the house. She was taken aback to realize that the her potential true love who was going to die was the same President Cell Phone who had insulted her the night before. The boys recognized Blue, though, as she recognized them. And with the awkwardness said and done, they sat down for their reading.. They did one-offs for the boys, having Blue shuffle and deal to one at a time. For Adam who drew the two of swords, they deciphered that he had a choice to make between two options and that what he needed was to find a third. For Ronan... well, there was no reading for Ronan. The boy refused a reading until they told him something true first. Calla touched him and determined his father was dead for a secret Ronan knew. Angered by this, Ronan left the house to wait outside. For Gansey, Gansey asked Blue to draw his card. When she drew the page of cups, Maura made him draw again on his own this time. When he drew the page of cups himself, Maura insisted he draw again and that Blue's energy was all over that card. The final time he drew the death card. Despite the potential implications, Gansey announced he wasn't interested in the cards but rather wanted to know what they knew of ley lines. Maura lied. She knew nothing specific of ley lines, but if they left a number she would call them to tell them if she found anything. Knowing Maura was lying, Gansey asked for Maura to be honest and tell him that she refused to help. Maura answered honestly that she would not help him, and Gansey paid for the reading and left. After he left, Maura gave Blue her first command: stay away from Gansey. Several days later Blue woke in the night again. This time she wandered out into her yard, to a large tree that made her feel comforted and peaceful. But tonight her peace was disturbed. The scene was odd to her. Candles and scrying pools about, a shape like a pentagram from the items. And in it all was Neeve. Blue settled, but only slightly when she saw the familiar woman. Yet when she spoke to Neeve, Neeve did not answer. But eventually Neeve did speak. She asked who was there, for Blue to come closer. But it was not Neeve who truly spoke. Blue lied. She gave her own name as Neeve and she stayed away from the light. She asked who she spoke with, and the answer was Neeve. Blue asked where she was, the thing answered on the corpse road where the spirits walked. Fearing what held Neeve, Blue ran forward and kicked over the empty bowl and knocked out the candles and scuffed the dirt. Eventually the real Neeve returned and begged Blue tell no one. She explained she had been scrying into the place from before and Blue had made it stronger. Blue explained they were on a ley line and Neeve realized that was why everything was stronger still. Neeve explained that whatever she saw there, it knew Blue's name and it searched for what Blue searched for. Yet she had no idea what it truly was. The next day Blue went to Calla, demanding to know why Neeve was there. Calla had no true knowledge of the reason, but she had a way to learn. If they could get Neeve to leave the home for even an hour, Calla could get into the room to touch her things and hopefully find the truth of Neeve. While talking, flowers were delivered to the home at 300 Fox Way. Blue expected the flowers to be for Orla, as she usually had men who desired her. Instead, the flowers were for Blue. From Adam. Adam called Blue not too long after the flowers arrived, inviting her to go exploring in the mountains with him and the boys. Finally deciding to stop running from the future and make her own life, Blue disobeyed her mother and agreed to go with the boys on a... not-date? Date? Neither really had any idea but they went anyway. Blue arrived at Monmouth Manufacturing to find a helicopter waiting for them. Gansey's sister piloted the copter and was helping them to explore the mountains deeper than before. Blue returned Gansey's notebook to Adam, having realized that it must belong to Gansey as he was the one hunting the ley lines that the book spoke of. Blue said that while her Mother refused to help, Blue had never promised such a thing and that being not-psychic herself she wanted to find real magic. That was why she came with the boys now. To which Adam replied that she was as bad as Gansey, that he too only needed to know it was real. Never having ridden in a helicopter, Blue stayed close to Adam during the trip while Gansey and Helen discussed their mother's upcoming birthday and Ronan sat alongside Adam and Blue. Blue directed them to what she knew: the isolated church ruins. It was here that her family saw spirits on what they had always called the corpse road and what she now knew was the ley line Gansey hunted. When asked about the ruins and if that was it Blue replied that that was all there was. The statement triggered a memory in Gansey that set off the other boys, a memory of a recording and a voice that was recognized as Blue's now. Ronan instigated the questioning of Blue, asking if she had known Gansey before. Demanding Ronan back off, Blue finally explained. Yes she knew Gansey, but only by name. She demanded Gansey explain to her a shape she had seen in his books and recognized as the shape Maura and Neeve had drawn in exchange for more information and for Ronan to back off. Gansey explained the shape was ley lines, the ones that mattered most. In exchange Blue told them she had seen Gansey's spirit once before. When asked when, she lied. She told them she had witnessed it while sitting outside with an aunt. The answer seemed to satisfy the boys, she was the daughter of a psychic after all, but she knew she withheld a truth she couldn't tell any of them. Gansey would die within a year. The group continued their search, looking for something unusual that usually marked a ley line. It was never the same, but it was recognizable when found and could be seen better from the air. Eventually, they found their thing. Grass grown with bare lines running through. A shape emerged from the grass. A bird. A raven. Helen put the helicopter down in the heart of the raven. Two seconds for them to explore. The group set out, Adam giving Blue a lay of the boys. Ronan was a pit bull that Gansey was retraining in an effort to feel better about being Gansey. That Gansey didn't mean to be condescending, but sometimes his blue blood dictated it. As they wandered, Gansey found oyster shells. Oysters along the rocks in the Appalachian mountains. Gansey took out instruments used for tracking energy while he explained to Blue why he believed Glendower to be in Virginia. Essentially, the dead wander straight lines. The ley lines. And that he didn't believe Glendower to be really dead. That according to legend, Glendower only slept so that he might rise again one day. Yet to keep the magic alive, those that buried him had to keep along the ley lines like the spirits before him. That to remove him from the line would ruin the magic that kept him asleep. And this line connected Wales directly to Virginia, thus Glendower had to be along it. And he was not left in Wales due to Glendower rebelling against the English. That the English would have disturbed his body long ago had he remained in Wales. Why not the shore then, Blue questioned? Gansey replied it had to be in the heart of the ley line, where there was more energy to store him within. The group continued, taking longer and longer as they went. Adam warned about Helen's two seconds, yet when the group checked their watches time had stopped. At first they wondered if the energy was affecting their electronics, until they remembered that the watch was wind up and everything still worked. It was only time that had broken. They continued on. Further into the forest they found a pool of water that held fish. They'd seen a stream from before that had seemed too shallow for fish, yet the pool was fed from higher up the mountain by rainwater. Fish did not fall from the sky. The silver and black fish were stranger still when Gansey remarked that he wondered if the fish only existed because he imagined they should exist. When questioned further, Gansey asked them what color the fish were. They answered black and silver, yet when Gansey redirected them to the fish they were now silver and red. Unmistakably silver and red. A red so bright there was no way they could have missed it from before. Gansey explained he had thought of brook trout, of how they were known to swim upstream. Brook trout were silver and red. Adam, who had wandered while this discussion occurred, brought Blue and Gansey elsewhere. To a tree. A tree with an opening large enough for people to fit inside of it. He asked them to stand inside and tell him if he had lost his mind. Adam looked out of breath and shocked, Blue idly thought it reminded her of someone who had woken from a nightmare. Ronan refused to go into the tree, despite having been the one to find it and show it to Adam. So Blue offered to step inside. Once inside, she closed her eyes as she had been instructed to do. What came next was bewildering to her. She was elsewhere suddenly. It smelled of rain in this other place, and in this place tears ran down her face. Tears that felt too real. Before her stood Gansey, comforting her and smelling of mint. Inside her Blue felt pain and love. Love for Gansey, she slowly began to realize. Gansey whispered to her that things would be okay even while Blue cried. And finally he said- Okay, I'm ready. Blue, kiss me. Blue opened her eyes back inside the tree. It was certainly something, she informed the others, her stomach twisted and knotted from the vision as she stepped out. Gansey replaced her and Adam dragged Blue close to him, holding her in comfort as she realized that there were tears on her face once again. He told her he would never do that. It would never happen. Slowly, Blue realized whatever Adam had seen, it was not the same as what she had seen. She watched Ronan now, seeing the way he looked. He didn't look confused or unsure. He looked as if he knew what the tree did. When Gansey emerged they asked him what he saw. In a dazed sort of look, he told them that he saw Glendower. Finally the group returned home. They spent the next while together, trying to solve the mystery of forest that wasn't quite a true forest. Gansey wanted to know all he could about the forest before they could return. Blue slowly began to settle into a routine with the boys, constantly meeting with them and getting deeper into the group. She grew closer to Noah, who followed her almost like a puppy. She tolerated Ronan in all his Ronanness. And she grew closer to Adam as he helped integrate her into their little group. When the group did return they explored the forest carefully. They tried to follow their steps before, but slowly realized as they walked that the trees changed more and more. What was once spring became autumn while 5:27 pm remained forever. They found writing on a rock in latin that Ronan read. Though he didn't need to read to know. The writing was his own, the joke was to ensure he trusted himself, and the message was that the trees speak latin and to call it by its name. Cabeswater. Ronan had no recollection of writing the message, but he didn't mistake himself either. Somehow, he had left a message for himself in the past. They wandered further into the forest, deeper into winter, until they found water yet again. This time they did not seek the tree, but instead tried to speak to Cabeswater. Ronan tested the theory, and quietly the trees answered him. They were happy to see the psychic's daughter and the Greywaren. To see Blue and Ronan. But the ley line was not awake. Not truly. And if they were to wake it, the trees would be in their debt. The trees told them how to return home, but also of something they might like to see first before they did. The group returned the way they came, and found the something at least. A car left in the forest. It was old and rusting and very out of place. A dowsing rod was left in it's trunk, meaning whoever had used the car had been here for the forest. Yet Noah had begun to vomit upon arrival at the car, and soon the group left to investigate the location at a later date. A few days later Gansey called Blue to do some more exploring. Adam and Ronan were both busy on that Sunday and Noah nowhere to be found. So Blue agreed to go with him after her dog-walking. As Blue was about to leave, Maura asked Blue how her time with Gansey was. She asked that Blue at least say sorry and pretend Maura had some sort of control over Blue. Blue did apologize but said she couldn't stop anymore. Blue and Gansey met at the ruins of Blue's church. As they searched the grounds with more energy reading instruments, the two began to talk. After Gansey joked about wanting to kiss Blue for setting them on the ley line, Blue skittered away from him. He questioned what that was about and she explained to him why it had set her off. The curse of killing the one she kissed had always made her wary. It was why she wouldn't kiss Adam, because she could never be certain who might be her true love. She had never told someone outside her home about the curse, so Gansey in turn trusted her with the story of how he had died once before. He explained he was deathly allergic to bees, and as a boy he had once wandered from a party and stepped on a hornets' nest. The hornets had stung him over and over. He had died almost quickly and would have stayed dead. However a vision had come to him telling him that because someone else died when they shouldn't have, he would live when he shouldn't have. That he would live because of Glendower. That was why he needed to find Glendower. At that moment the reader they used went off. When Blue took reader back to examine it, it shot back to life. Blue tried to give it back to Gansey, but it turned off every time she did. It seemed she was amplifying something, but she wasn't sure what. She followed the reader with Gansey to where ever the energy was leading them. That was when they found it. Bones. A skeleton that wore an Aglionby sweater. With a driver's license that had Noah's face on it. That night Gansey went home to Monmouth Manufacturing searching for Noah. He had spent the whole night with the police about the body, and now he wanted answers from Noah. Noah told them he had tried to tell them. He was dead. For seven years. Not just dead, but murdered. He refused to talk about it, and soon became almost too incorporeal to bear. His body now moved on the ley line, Noah became a spirit that haunted Monmouth truly. When Blue returned to Monmouth next, she finally went inside the factory. Usually when she met the boys, they would be outside to greet her. Now that they weren't, she wandered inside to find them. Adam showed her around the factory and where they lived, showing her where everyone stayed. Adam, himself, did not actually live in the factory and instead still lived at home with his parents as he was native to Henrietta. In fact, he was more like Blue than like the boys. He was poor and worked several jobs to pay for half the tuition at Aglionby. The other half was a scholarship he had received to attend. It was part of how the two bonded. How they understood each other. He introduced Blue to Ronan's pet raven called Chainsaw, and the three sat together on the couch when Noah finally walked in again. They asked Noah about himself, what he remembered, what happened to him. He explained he had been more when he'd been alive. And that his death had been meant to be used to wake the ley line. That someone else had tried. Blue held his hand to help him feel stronger, and he told them his death had been seven years ago. The same year Gansey had died. A sacrifice to wake the ley line, but apparently had not quite worked. When they tried to press him about who had done it, he told them it had been a friend who had lost everything. When they asked who, he said they already knew before disappearing again. Meanwhile, Gansey had been out of town for his mother's birthday. While returning, his car broke down. Someone had pulled over to help him, or so Gansey thought. He recognized the man as his latin teacher. Barrington Whelk. The man who had visited the women at 300 Fox Way weeks before and Blue had been warned against. He pulled a gun out on Gansey and demanded the journal. The cops would certainly solve who had killed Noah in no time, and Whelk was desperate now to continue what he had set out to do and wake the ley line and gain the favor. Gansey gave his journal to Whelk, but Whelk still attempted to kill him. Instead, Gansey flung himself at Whelk and the two wrestled. Eventually Whelk lost control of the situation and left instead. At the same time Blue and Calla investigated Neeve back at 300 Fox Way. Her room was strange and full of things that bordered on witchcraft. She had two mirrors that reflected each other that Calla and Blue avoided out of fear of being lost in them. Everything Calla touched spelled out a story. About how Neeve had come to Henrietta to help Maura, but was getting caught up in Henrietta. And that she had spoken with someone weeks ago. A man who had offered to bring her to Virginia and pay all expenses to help him investigate the ley line. Neeve had refused, then eventually changed her mind upon later contemplation. But she came on her own under the guise of helping Maura. It was at that time that the house filled with people. The boys arrived, Gansey having gone to the hospital and visited the police about Whelk, and Neeve and Maura returned home from a night out. All at once the story came together of how Whelk had murdered Noah to wake the ley line after his family had fallen to disarray seven years ago. That years later he had tried to use Neeve to help him with the ley line once again, but Neeve hadn't spoken with him since. And now he was close to capture, he was desperate and wild and had attacked Gansey to further his hunt of the ley line. Slowly, the world began to unravel around them. Noah was disappearing, Whelk was on the lam from the police, Cabeswater was in danger, and Adam Parrish had finally left his home. Adam Parrish had a secret. One Blue had not fully known and the boys had had to leave to him as he wished it. Adam's father beat him. Frequently. And finally it had gone too far for Ronan to ignore. Ronan had fought with Adam's father and nearly been arrested for it, but finally Adam was forced to the make the decision the psychics had warned him of. He pressed charges against his father to keep Ronan from going to jail, and finally he left his home. All these things came together to create the perfect storm to wake the ley line in the end. Whelk, desperate and crazed, attempted to kidnap Neeve. Only Neeve turned the tables on him. She kidnapped him. She took him to the ley line, to the place where they might finally wake the line. Yet she had not done her duty tying Whelk up, properly, and yet again he gained the upperhand. They were not alone either. Angered at being forced to choose between living with his father and accepting the charity of Gansey, Adam Parrish had set out to do something. He had intended to wake the ley line before Whelk could do it and steal it's power from them. With Whelk in control of Cabeswater, he could ultimately end up distorting it. Destroying it. Adam had gone out to the mountains with the same goal as Neeve and Whelk. Gansey, discovering Adam missing, had chased him out to the mountains in an attempt to help him or stop him or something. He wasn't quite sure what. Ronan and Blue had joined him to try to help. Chaos had ultimately ensued, during which Neeve vanished ( a feat accomplished by Calla and Persephone and Maura back at home through the effort of tampering with the mirrors in Neeve's room ). Adam took advantage of the chaos to sacrifice himself to Cabeswater. He put his hands to the soil and gave up his freedom to become the hands and eyes of Cabeswater. Accepting his sacrifice, the ley line woke with a violent shaking. Animals stampeded into the clearing where all stood. Blue, Ronan, and Gansey took refuge in the vision tree where Blue and Gansey shared a vision of their future, close and wishing desperately to kiss. Ronan's visions remained his own mystery as always. When the group emerged they found Adam safe, protected by Cabeswater, and Whelk dead, trampled by Cabeswater. Adam was never quite the same again, but the little group returned home. They had Noah properly buried along the ley line after digging up his grave to do so, and Noah returned more fully to them. Maura confessed who Blue's father was. A man that had come into her life suddenly and disappeared just as quickly. A man named Artemus. He had not truly left, though, and that was why Maura was searching for him. As with everything else in Henrietta, his disappearance was not quite ordinary. Still, all seemed to settle once again. Until Ronan confessed to creating Chainsaw from his dreams. ᴛʜᴇ ᴅʀᴇᴀᴍ ᴛʜɪᴇᴠᴇs Ronan wasn't lying it seemed. He proved to the group that he could in fact dream things to live that worked as well. Unbeknownst to them, this was a trait that had brought the attention of a man that was only known as the Gray Man. Actually, it called the attention of his employer, Greenmantle, but it was the Gray Man who searched for Greenmantle. The item Mr. Gray searched for was called the Greywaren, and it was known to make dream things real. Only, Mr. Gray and Greenmantle both did not realize the Greywaren was actually a person. Mr. Gray came to Henrietta and immediately set on Declan Lynch, Ronan's older brother. As Niall had seemed to die guarding the secret, Declan was the second best choice to question about the Greywaren and left Declan to find him answers while he searched elsewhere. Meanwhile, Cabeswater had disappeared. The group searched for Cabeswater, and even Adam could not find it despite his connections to the forest now as it's hands and eyes. Instead, they found a lake that seemed to be the only thing left in the area. Convinced that perhaps they should look under the lake, Gansey vowed to return later with the others when they had more information. Adam and Blue hung out in Adam's new home above Ronan's church, a place he payed a small rent to but that kept him from his father and Gansey. His own place. Their relationship slowly became strained as Adam struggled with Cabeswater and his tuition rising, and Blue seemed to not want to kiss Adam. Angered at all other things, Adam turned his anger on Blue as he questioned what was wrong with him that six weeks later she still refused to kiss him. In his anger, he hit a trash can across the room that instantly stopped all conversation. Feeling too ashamed and embarrassed to tell Adam the truth, Blue instead left rather than deal with Adam's anger. As the weeks progressed, Adam's relationship with Blue strained more, and his relationship with Gansey as well. Still, the group returned to the lake in an effort to try to find more clues to the disappearance of Cabeswater. This time they brought tools to search the lake and Orla to help with her own psychic capabilities. Eventually, their tools found something at the bottom of the lake, and Orla dove to get it. Failing to retrieve it, Blue dove into the water herself. She pulled out two items in two dives, a metal piece that had once been on a shield and a car tire. A tire that looked exactly like the one on Gansey's camaro. Blue eventually took these items to Calla, having her touch them to find the history of them. The shield item was easier, it had been on Glendower's shield, but his people having grown exhausted had had to abandon some of Glendower's things to press on with him. The tire, was a mystery of it's own. It had been left there by Gansey, but when didn't seem clear. Calla divulged that time was circular, and so was Gansey, and that it may be a thing he was still to do one day. It didn't full clear things up, but it left Blue with much to think on. And the shield only strengthened their resolve that Cabeswater was where Glendower was. Meanwhile, Mr. Gray visited the psychics at 300 Fox Way for a reading. Maura offered to do his reading, and discovered the truth of him. Mr. Gray did not deny he was a hit man once discovered, but promised he was not currently here to kill but to seek. And was no danger to Maura or any of her own. Once he left, Maura stated she would keep an eye on, to which Persephone replied they all knew what she was really keeping an eye on as Maura had gained a sort of liking for the hit man. Ronan continued to dream things, once even dreaming a box that translated into Greek, Latin, and an unknown language. But not all Ronan's dreams were good. Some turned bad, and sometimes his nightmares escaped. Roguish creatures that were out for Ronan's blood roamed the world once free from Ronan's head. Two escaped this particular nightmare, one Ronan and Gansey caught and killed. Gathering Adam and Blue, Ronan and Gansey took the nightmare to a place Ronan was banned from by way of his father's will. His own home. There they found the reason why. Everything there seemed dreamed, but it was all asleep itself. Ronan's father had been a dreamer like Ronan, and once death he could no longer power his dreams so they all slept in his stead. Including his own wife, who it seemed liked was only a dream thing herself. Realizing this, Ronan decided he would find a way to return to his home and to wake his mother once again for the sake of his brother. Yet another in town shared Ronan's secrets. Kavinsky, a boy more dangerous and wild than Ronan himself. Kavinsky toyed with Ronan and teased at him, trying to draw him into his web. Once he invaded Monmouth and threw fake ids all over his bed in order to call Ronan out to him. Except it was not that that called Ronan and Gansey, but rather the ransacking of their home. When they met with Kavinsky to demand he stop, they discovered it was not Kavinsky who had ransacked the home but instead strangers. People searching for something within Monmouth. Eventually Gansey was called away to home to attend a party for his mother who had announced her bid for congress. Gansey played the role of the politics son well, and invited Adam along with him to make connections that could help Adam later in life. However, the pair were strained and the party only worsened their strain. And here, Adam was not free from Cabeswater. Visions haunted Adam in Gansey's home, and Adam had no way of understanding what they were or why they did. In his anger, he fought with Gansey about how he didn't want be one of Gansey's things. That night, Gansey called Blue simply to talk and calm his nerves once again. While the pair were gone, Noah let Blue into Monmouth so she could explore without the boys present. She wandered the factory and saw how they all lived. She looked at what remained of Gansey's floor model of Henrietta after the raiding of Monmouth and curled in his bed where she came to the conclusion that she did not love Adam. Instead, she had slowly been falling in love with Gansey's eyes, his laugh, his smile, and now all of him. She curled in his bed and told Noah the truth of why she would not kiss Adam. Noah offered Blue the chance to kiss him, just to see what kissing was since she could not kill a boy who was already dead. Blue kissed Noah once, then twice. But neither kiss seemed really any good It wasn't until she imagined her vision kiss with Gansey that her kiss with Noah seemed so much more real. And her love for Gansey even more so. Still the Gray Man hunted for the Greywaren in town, but that was not all he did. Eventually, him and Maura ended up on a date together. When he came to her home to pick her up, Blue met him and realized he was the hit man the others had spoken of. She questioned him on his intentions with her mother, and slowly decided Maura with the Gray Man wasn't so bad. So long as the Gray Man never hurt her. His date with Maura seemed to go well, ultimately. Even when Maura stole his phone at the end of it, he was not angered. He only asked next time she stole his things she warn him so he could prepare how to live without them. Meanwhile, Ronan took Gansey's beloved car out to drive while Gansey was away. He encountered Kavinsky yet again, who challenged him to a race. During the race, the second nightmare found and attacked Ronan. Ronan wrecked the camaro beyond repair and Kavinsky appeared before the nightmare could kill Ronan. Kavinsky helped kill the nightmare, then told Ronan he would teach him how to dream another car so as to not anger Gansey. The pair spent their time drinking and taking drugs while Kavinsky taught Ronan how to sneak into his dream place and steal things until finally Ronan dreamed another car for Gansey back to life. Not just another car, but Gansey's own car. With an imperfect engine as Gansey had once had. Ronan confessed to wrecking Gansey's camaro, and then revealed to him the dream one that worked just like the old one had once Gansey had returned. Ronan also came to an understanding about what had happened to Cabeswater. Himself. Himself and Kavinsky had happened. Together, their dreaming had stolen the energy from Cabeswater and destroyed it. When Adam returned, he came to Blue straight to Blue. Immediately, the pair fought. Blue demanded to know why Adam never shared anything with her. He never told her things and instead only seemed to want her around to cuddle and kiss. He hadn't even invited her to the party or asked how she felt about it. Adam demanded to know why Blue wouldn't kiss him, and so angry Blue finally told him the why of it. She told him about the curse, but admitted she did not love Adam. Adam asked her to kiss him even if she knew he was not her true love. But Blue could not. She did not love Adam, nor did she want to date him anymore. Before Adam could leave, Persephone stole Adam with the promise to teach him himself better. She showed him how to understand Cabeswater and himself and to read the cards. To know that Cabeswater was not sending him visions to frighten him, but instead tried to speak to him in the only language that he knew. He only had to listen and teach Cabeswater not to command him but to speak to him. with Persephone's help, he came to understand what Cabeswater needed him to do. Finally Mr. Gray came to Maura to confess what it was he was here for. Maura knew what it was already, and asked what he intended to do now that he discovered what it was. The Greywaren was no thing, in the end. It was a boy. It was Ronan. Mr. Gray tried to do right and to throw Greenmantle off his trail, but ultimately Greenmantle threatened Mr. Gray further. Concerned for her daughter, Maura ended up giving Blue a switchblade to protect herself against potential future Mr. Gray's. But Maura was far from done trying to save Ronan. Upset over her breakup and wondering why she couldn't have loved Adam, Blue called Gansey in search of comfort and familiarity. Together the pair drove to the mountains where they talked. They talked about all their problems and all their worries and they shared the peace of the mountains together. And slowly they came to realize that they cared for each other more than they should. They vowed that they couldn't do this to Adam, but shared one moment in the mountains where they touched and held each other and let themselves believe they might one day be able to love easily. Then they never spoke of it again. Eventually Maura gathered Mr. Gray and the boys all at the Ronan's home in an attempt to solve their problem. She told Ronan he had to convince Mr. Gray not to kidnap him, and Ronan argued with Mr. Gray. Mr. Gray was not usually in the business of kidnappings but he also feared what Greenmantle might do. Ultimately, he decided to once again try to shake Greenmantle off Ronan's back. Since Greenmantle did not believe Mr. Gray's earlier story that the Greywaren was not there, Mr. Gray instead called to claim he had the Greywaren himself and would disappear with it. With that, Mr. Gray left town to go into hiding from Greenmantle. Not all problems were resolved, however. Kavinsky was angered that Ronan left him to return to Gansey and kidnapped Ronan's little brother, Matthew. With Matthew's life on the line, Gansey, Blue, and Ronan went to Kavinsky's 4th of July celebration. The party was huge, wild, and wholly illegal. Hundreds of cars that all looked the same, dreamed by Kavinsky, waited to be wrecked and destroyed. One of them held Matthew. Ronan and Kavinsky argued while Blue and Gansey hunted for Matthew. Elsewhere Adam and Persephone slowly began to repair Cabeswater. They gathered stones of power and moved them where directed. Ronan dreamed and chased Kavinsky into the secret place where Kavinsky created a dragon that he took from Cabeswater. Ronan and Adam met in that place and Adam told him he was repairing Cabeswater for Ronan. Adam put the final pieces together, and Ronan dreamed something to fight Kavinsky's dragon. Ronan dreamed a nightmare. This one Ronan controlled. It was his nightmare, and the thing clashed with it and fought with it and attempted to destroy it. The two creatures nearly killed Blue and Gansey, though the nightmare protected them from the dragon. Eventually, though, Ronan found Matthew in the car closest to him. He pulled Matthew to safety while Kavinsky stood in the battlefield of the dragon and the nightmare. Destroyed by the nightmare, the dragon came crashing down around them, rushing through Kavinsky and ultimately killing the boy as well. With Cabeswater finally restored and Matthew safe, Ronan took his mother to Cabeswater. Finally, the dream Aurora woke up and became real again. Ronan dreamed another will to replace his fathers, this one stating the boys could have access to their home once again. Cabeswater also revealed a new secret. The pool of fish had disappeared, and in their place was a cavern that led below the earth. A cavern that opened the potential of finding buried kings. The group returned to 300 Fox Way to find the Gray Man returned, having outrun the worst Greenmantle had sent after him- his own brother. His brother now dead, the Mr. Gray had come back to Maura. But there was no Maura to be found. Instead, Blue found a note from her mother. Glendower is underground. So am I. ʙʟᴜᴇ ʟɪʟʏ, ʟɪʟʏ ʙʟᴜᴇ Nothing was really quite right for Blue when her senior year started. It was true that Cabeswater was finally restored, but Maura was gone. That was the biggest problem. Blue turned seventeen with little fanfare. Her family helped her celebrate in absence of Maura as best they could, but otherwise Blue dodged the day. Not even her friends had known it had come. Her birthday was not her biggest concern. Maura had been gone too long. Or maybe not long enough. The note had been too empty of answers, leaving Blue to wonder if she would ever see her mother again. Call tried to go through Maura's things to find the answer of it, and Blue touched her to help. But only more riddles came. Queens and kings Kings and queens Blue lily, lily blue Crowns and birds Swords and things Blue lily, lily blue Calla heard the chant in her mind, saw the things that Maura had seen, three sleepers all light and dark and in between. Artemus below the earth. Something coming. Something big. Something with Blue and Gansey and Adam and Ronan and Noah all. Something too big. Something. Blue tried to continue as normal. She spent the last of her summer with her friends and in Cabeswater. She tried to hunt for her mother, and her friends all came with her as she did. She fed her energy to Cabeswater and prayed it would help her in return. Together, her friends and herself explored a cave in Cabeswater. If Maura had gone down, so would they. Ronan sang songs to help them keep track of time, fearing they might become lost in it like Maura had. Instead, they had nearly lost Gansey. He went over a cliff they had not seen. Tied together, Ronan helped ground them as he kept Blue and Adam from going over with Gansey. Gansey finally showed fear for the first time as he felt something on him. Something small and crawling. Hornets. Maybe not really, but once the idea was in his head Cabeswater had a history of bringing his ideas to life. Together, Adam and Ronan yelled to Cabeswater to protect Gansey or lose them both. Rather than hornets, it was Ravens that flew from the deep cavern, and finally they were able to pull Gansey back to safety. No one spoke of the fear Gansey had shown for the first time in his life. Before school fully started, Gansey invited an old friend to visit Henrietta and the ley line. Gansey had a history of traveling the world hunting ley lines and studying Glendower. His journeys had once taken him to the United Kingdom where he had met a scholar by the name of Malory. Malory investigated the ley line as much as Gansey, though for different reasons. Where Gansey obsessed over Glendower, Malory made a hobby of the ley lines. Though his passion was no less true. When they picked Malory up from the airport, Malory brought with him a dog and stories of a tapestry of Glendower's that had once been believed to be destroyed. Yet coincidences that were not truly coincidences not only unearthed it, but revealed a detail that the whole group found strange when they looked at the pictures of it. Blue was featured rather prominently in the tapestry. Three women in the tapestry, all wearing Blue's face and Blue's look. Too much like her to be coincidence. More questions. School drew closer and still no Maura. The cave pit was deemed too dangerous to return to, so the group decided they had to find a way to bypass it. This meant searching for other ways. Until then Blue was alone in a house full of women with nothing but her thoughts to comfort her. Finding no comfort there, Blue turned to a dangerous source of comfort. She misdialled the number for congress, finding instead Gansey at the other end. They talked. Briefly. Enough to settle Blue. Enough to get her to school. School was no comfort. At school Noah visited Blue on her first day, accompanied her to a talk her counselor about a potential school out of country Blue was interested by. Ultimately, the counselor told her it was a stretch goal academically and financially. During the conversation, Noah had disappeared without a word. Concerned by this behavior, Blue went to Monmouth Manufacturing after school. After a conversation with Malory and Gansey, Noah eventually was found under the pool table. It became apparent then that Noah was deteriorating more and more. Slowly he was losing control of himself. He began to even wreck Monmouth, forcing Blue to cut off her energy to him so that he didn't destroy the place. Noah was shocked, but he did understand the why of it. That night Blue went home thinking of what she had done with Noah when the house was visited by a man searching for a reading. However the air around the man became increasingly disturbing as time passed. It became evident that the man was looking for someone, and eventually he stated as much. He was looking for Maura. Slowly it dawned on them that this man was no ordinary man. Angrily, Calla and Persephone asked the man to leave. Thankfully he chose to leave peacefully. Later, though, Ronan and Gansey came by to fill in the blanks. A Greenmantle was to be their new latin teacher. The Gray Man immediately identified Greenmantle as his former employer, the one who had ordered the death of Ronan's father. Greenmantle was here for Mr. Gray and was a threat to them all. If Ronan or Mr. Gray exacted revenge on the man, he would destroy them by attacking those they loved and unraveling their lives in the cruelest ways. Ways that sickened them all to hear. For now, Greenmantle was to be left alone while Mr. Gray found a way to dispatch of him without setting off a chain of events that would bring hell down on them all. The next day Blue prepared to go out again with Gansey and the boys. Orla warned Blue about the dangers of having too close a bond with so few, but if Maura couldn't stop her Orla certainly couldn't either. Instead Blue went with the others in search of the other way into Cabeswater. During this journey, Blue utilized her more warming nature to talk to locals outside of Henrietta in an effort to find a cave under the guise of a student project. Eventually this search led them to Jesse Dittley, a man with a cave. Jesse warned the group, however, that the cave was dangerous, cursed, and claimed lives, and he would not allow the group to explore it. Unsuccessful, everyone left to try to decide how to tackle their cave problem while Blue's mood darkened. Every day Maura was missing, Blue warred between anger and sadness at the absence. She confronted Calla about this problem and Calla explained about the three sleepers she had seen. One was to be woken, one was to be left alone. The other was unknown. One light, one dark, and one in between. Blue and her friends were meant to wake one, but Maura was meant to not wake one. That was the jobs everyone held. Confused even more, Blue investigated something about the cave that didn't settle right with her. The name, Jesse Dittley, had seemed familiar to her and yet she couldn't recall why. Sitting with the Gray Man, Blue discovered why it was. Jesse Dittley was the name of one of the spirits on the corpse road earlier that year. A man who would die within the year still, and no one would know how. Meanwhile Mr. Gray apologized for putting Blue's family in danger, vowing to be a hero and finish things. As the days passed Blue and Gansey ventured further into dangerous territory. More and more Blue misdialed Gansey. More and more they talked late at night about nothing. More and more they grew closer together without having touched. Finally, Blue decided to do something about the cave. Taking the only car, Blue drove out with Noah to Jesse Dittley's home and struck a deal with him. She would clean his yard up and he would let them venture down the cave. Believing Blue to be too small to do what she promised, Jesse agreed. Blue set to work throughout the day, sawing couches in half and hauling away large trash to clear the yard. She broke for dinner and to hear the story of Jesse Dittley's family. Of the cave that terrorized and haunted them. Of how a Dittley would sacrifice himself to the cave when it became too much to bear. Of how one day, Dittley would follow the same path. Blue told him of her own curse, and together the pair bonded over spaghetti-o's and curses. As Blue went back to work, Noah began to behave strangely. He repeated Blue and lily over and over again and looked at her with black eyes. He came close to her, terrifying her, when Jesse finally intervened with a mirror to reflect Noah's eyes back at himself until finally he broke away, afraid of what he'd done. Jesse warned the cave was acting up again and it would be soon that he would be needed. As the day came to a close, Calla and Gansey showed up at Dittley's home, both a complete mess. Blue had neglected to inform anyone of where she'd gone, and the result had surmounted to Blue being missing for over 6 hours and no one being too happy with her. At home, Blue described what she had learned and what had taken place. She also informed everyone of the death list and Jesse's name being on it, to beware that she didn't know how Jesse would die but it would come and it may be their own intervention. Wondering why the list had never come up, an offhand comment about someone they know being on the list set Adam on edge. After they all agreed to search the cave, Adam took Blue aside and demanded he tell her who was on the list. Who did they know on the list. Who would die within a year. Blue refused to tell, but Adam guessed. Correctly. Blue's face told all. Gansey was destined to die. With the unfairness weighing on her, her missing mother, and her general anger at life, Blue turned to Gansey once again in the late night. Gansey picked Blue up from her home with no question and the pair drove around town together. Gansey even allowed Blue to drive until finally Blue stopped. She pressed close to Gansey, dreamed of being able to kiss him. Gansey wondered if it would count if he kissed her or not. And finally the pair realized the foolishness of them and stopped, continuing their drive. Shortly after they encountered another Aglionby boy whose car had broken down. Gansey and the boy talked, exchanged laughs, even joked about the dangers of local. Feeling low about herself and angry with life, Blue fought with Gansey over the treatment of the locals. Though the truth of her anger was much deeper than that. The next day the group went to the cave as they were allowed. They traveled deeper and as they went Chainsaw became possessed as Noah once had. A voice sang out from Chainsaw's mouth and angered Ronan as they followed the bird until they came to a door. A tomb. Angered by the hijacking of Chainsaw, Ronan broke the door into the tomb. Gansey was slowly becoming frustrated with everything. Nothing was right about their journey and the potential discovery of Glendower felt wrong. He told Ronan off for damaging the place before the group finally entered. Inside was a coffin, and inside the coffin was a body. Not Glendower's. Gansey felt relief. The body was not dead. Nor was it asleep. Nor was it male. Inside was a woman with her wrists tied, her knees tied, and laid face down in the coffin. The way witches were buried. And she turned, looking up at them with wide awake eyes. Gwenllian was rescued from the cave, despite her madness. She sang and shrieked and laughed. She called Gansey the raven prince and described him as her father, she referred to Adam as a mongrel, and she watched Blue. Always watched her. Gwenllian was one of Glendower's illegitimate children, and potentially the source of the curse within the cave as it was her voice that had spoken from Noah and the Chainsaw. Back at Blue's home, they finally untied Gwenllian after she revealed it was Artemus who had tied her up in the first place. Persephone, having expected her, knitted her a sweater that they gave to Gwenllian. While everyone discussed Gwenllian's fate, Blue and Malory talked about his dog and his life. About how Malory could see aura's and saw the blue aura of Blue ( she hoped she was not named Blue simply for this reason. Like calling a puppy fluffy ). He described how people and auras made him anxious, and his dog helped. But Gansey had never made him anxious. Gansey was more calming despite having been more anxious himself before. Gansey had never seemed to settle before, and had once worn his fear of death on his sleeve where all could see. This contrasted the Gansey knew Blue knew now, and showed her that money did not necessarily mean a life without pain as well. Eventually, it was settled that Gwenllian would stay at 300 Fox Way as she was more like the women there than she was like anyone else. While everyone dealt with Gwenllian, Adam and Ronan dealt with Greenmantle. Adam found a way to deal with Greenmantle in a way that would keep the man out of their lives and strike fear into him should he try to hurt any of them. All Ronan had to do was dream it. Unfortunately, the darkness Adam imagined proved a terrible nightmare. Evidence procured to frame Greenmantle in a crime that involved children and bodies. Evidence that was dreamed, but could not be refuted if found. Evidence that would send him to jail where bad things happened to those who harmed children. Ronan dreamed the evidence all the same, but the dream was dark. A nightmare. His nightmares attacked him and Ronan dreamed a double to take all his pain. A double that died from the nightmares while Adam and Ronan watched. But the deed was done and finally Ronan and Mr. Gray had their solution to dealing with Greenmantle. Mr. Gray set to work to bury evidence where it could be placed. He did not describe anything to Blue about his task, but Blue did suggest they might try the Dittley cave as a place to go. Before they left, Gwenllian and Mr. Gray talked about her life. Gwenllian explained how she came to be in that cave in a song that only Mr. Gray seemed able to stand to listen to. But she had angered the poet of her father, stabbed him in an attempt to prevent war as the poet incited people to it. For her punishment, she was hidden in the cave as a way to distract people away from Glendower. Mr. Gray still deemed the cave a worthy place for his evidence, but when Blue and him arrived they discovered the cave was not cursed by Gwenllian. Instead, it had become more active in her stead and something climbed out of the cave to attack them. Mr. Gray shot it in all it's heads and killed it, but Dittley stated his time was slowly coming, but the cave was still unusable. Once home again, Gwenllian asked Blue if she was to give up, to which Blue replied she wasn't done yet. Gwenllian referred to Blue as Blue lily, lily Blue yet again to Blue's frustration. And finally she showed her why. The name was a clue. A clue to what Blue was. Gwenllian took Blue to Neeve's old room where she showed Blue the mirrors in the room. Blue feared the mirrors that had been used to disrupt whatever kept Neeve here, but when Gwenllian placed Blue between them nothing happened. Gwenllian called Blue a mirror herself, and said that mirror magic did not work on mirrors. Blue made things brighter. That was what people like her and Blue did. And that blue lily meant witches. A name to what Blue really was. Blue took this knowledge to heart, though she tried to question Gwenllian on Artemus once again. To which Gwenllian only replied that she would not answer, instead she would get mayonnaise. Days later, while Ronan and Mr. Gray continued to work on their plan, Adam had another job to do. Cabeswater had need of him, and Persephone had been training him better to listen and control his visions. He took Blue with him to a place of power where he might better scry to understand what Cabeswater needed of him. A sort of meeting place where he and Cabeswater could speak. As they drove the pair fought, Blue finding it strange that Adam now did everything Cabeswater asked and never even asked why. When he said he didn't care, Blue became angry that he brought her but wanted no help from her and threatened to leave. He apologized, and ultimately took her advice. While he scried he tried to question why Cabeswater wanted him to do the task it asked. It showed him reviving the ley line through setting stones to proper places. That a road had cut Cabeswater off to forests like itself and this would help the ley line dive beneath the ground to reach them all once again. Then it took him deeper underground. Finally he found Maura, knelt next to a stranger, in front of a door that called to Adam. Beckoned him. Maura and the strange man did not move, but the force called to them as it did Adam. Adam came back to the world as Blue cut him. She said he'd slowly begun to die right before them. The Third Sleeper had tried to take Adam, but thankfully Blue had stopped him from doing so. Ronan and the Gray Man finally completed their plan, and Adam and Ronan delivered the threat. Completely quelled by the boys and the evidence they procured, Greenmantle attempted to skip town. However, Greenmantle had not come to town alone. He had brought his wife. And while he'd been chasing the Gray Man, Henrietta had ensnared his wife, Piper. Piper refused to leave, saying she was close to discovering something. Later, Adam and Persephone met and Persephone bought Adam a drink while they talked of Glendower and what would happen when they found him. Persephone sent Adam back inside for a second drink, to which the cashier replied Adam must be thirsty. It was then that Adam realized the cashier asked that because she hadn't seen anyone else. And then that Adam realized Persephone had never truly been there. He rushed to 300 Fox Way to search for Persephone, and once there scried with the help of Blue and Calla to find her. Yet Persephone was in the house. In Neeve's old room, trapped between the mirrors as she searched for Maura. Blue ran between the mirrors and pulled Persephone out, only to find that the mirrors had killed Persephone. Meanwhile, Piper took Greenmantle with her to Dittley's cave, along with two men for muscle. Dittley tried to chase Piper and Greenmantle off when the Gray Man appeared. Mr. Gray had followed Greenmantle, hoping to see him leave but instead tried to defend Dittley. A fight ensued and eventually Piper came out the winner with a gun at Mr. Gray's head. Mr. Gray gave in and was tied up while Piper killed Dittley. Greenmantle, finding this all too much for him with Ronan's threat hanging over his head, finally left his wife and her man to do what they pleased with Mr. Gray and the cave. Fearing that inaction would cause them to lose Maura as they'd lost Persephone, Gansey decided it was time they retried the cave at Cabeswater. This time Gwenllian came with them and they found the pit before it could eat them up. Slowly, and carefully, Adam and Ronan descended into the pit. They found a bottom well enough on their own, and were able to help everyone down. In the pit animals were poised as if they were running, but none lived. Still, they all pointed at a wall that dictated that was where they were meant to go. Adam, Ronan, and Blue tried to wake the ley line and use a dream thing Ronan had created to wake dreamers to wake the animals. Having failed that, however, Gansey thought of something Gwenllian had told him before. To command. Wake up. Everything sprung to live at the command of his voice, and the animals ran for a hole that had opened in the pit. The hole was too far to run to, so instead everyone climbed on animals to ride into the hole. Unfortunately, Adam and Gansey did not make it through the hole while Blue and Ronan did. Thankfully, Ronan's dream thing cast light so they could see where they'd gone. The cave was cut off from all other light, but before them was a pool of water. All the animals had disappeared into it, breaking down upon touching the water. Blue approached to peer in, except as she watched she saw Maura's dead face reflect back at her. Before she could get too lost in the vision, Ronan pulled her away. However, Blue tried once more, now realizing the trick of the water. She used her mirror capabilities to stop the mirror from reflecting back at her. In this way she saw the bottom of the pool, only two inches deep. Keeping this bottom in her eyes, she was able to walk across the pool. Unfortunately, Ronan had to remain behind, though he sacrificed his light to her so she could make it across the water. Once on the other side, Blue found a way to leave and shouted back to Ronan to head back and she would be all right. But in another smaller cave that required Blue to nearly crouch Blue found Maura knelt alongside a man who could only be Artemus. Blue rushed to her mother, hugging her tightly, only for Maura to ask Blue not to let her move now that three were there. They knelt before the door of the Third Sleeper, and with three there the door could finally be opened. Now that Blue saw the door she heard the Third Sleeper's call. But instead she reflected it back at itself and chose to ignore it. She bound Artemus' hands and grabbed Maura and tried to slowly draw the two away as they edged towards the Third Sleeper and all his promises. It was at that time that three more bodies tumbled into the too small cavern: Piper, her man, and Mr. Gray. Piper promised to let everyone leave but Mr. Gray and Blue asked for the chance to hug him. While she hugged him, she cut Mr. Gray loose. Together, Blue and Mr. Gray fought with Piper and her man, Blue stabbing the man in order to help Mr. Gray fight back. Eventually they gained enough time to drag Artemus and Maura to safety, pulling them from the cave. Disturbed by the chaos and so many people entering, the cave eventually crumbled and crushed Piper and her man who had not escaped in time. Blue was reunited with her mother, though, and Artemus brought with them. Malory finally returned home and Adam found his own peace in the chaos. Beneath the earth, however, Piper and her man still stirred. They were both barely alive, though Piper more than him. A woman came to Piper, helping her up and carrying her to the door while the man still lived. Three were needed to open the door, though only two entered the chamber of the Third Sleeper. Here, Neeve instructed they touch the Third Sleeper together to gain the favor, but Piper did not wait. She touched the sleeper herself. PERSONALITY: [T]he characters are fools and damn fools. - maggie stiefvater Blue Sargent is a girl who has it all figured out while having nothing figured out at the same time. At the start of the series, we're introduced to Blue Sargent as an outcast sort of girl who is very concerned with displaying her outcast status. Blue sacrifices the comfort of her fingers for stylish fashion choice of torn gloves. Her clothes are hand-torn, DIYed into a mess. Her hair is cut short and usually put into a ponytail with pieces that are too short to reach the band held down in spiky tufts with clips. Everything about the way Blue looks and dresses says that she is not a girl that belongs. This is true, as well. But it is not true in the sense she means for it to be. In a nutshell, Blue's outer veneer is meant to display someone who doesn't belong because she is strange. She is odd. She is not of the norm. Why would she be? She comes from a home of all women. This doesn't seem to be a noteworthy thing at first, until you consider the legions of cousins and second cousins and not cousins and friends all living in the home. At times, there are women in the home that even Blue does not recognize herself. Men may venture to the residence at 300 Fox Way but none ever stay. Growing up around women already set Blue's mindset differently, but it was only cemented by the type of women she lived with. Psychics. Not one psychic, not two, but many psychics. All over the house. There was Jimi and Orla and Persephone and Calla and most importantly there was her mother, Maura. These were all women who did not shy away from the unnatural, who played in time as though it were a bathtub. Being unnatural wasn't just a thing for Blue, it was the thing. Blue's display of herself as being an odd outsider, oddly enough, was a way to make her belong among the women of 300 Fox Way. Blue was always loved by her family, none ever made her feel any shame, but deep down Blue felt a twinge of jealousy at living in a house full of psychics while being blind to the circular passage of time herself. Blue was not a psychic. Yet, Blue had her own abilities as well. She could make things louder as her mother put it. Blue's ability was to amplify the energy around her, make the powers of her cousins and mother and aunts stronger by simply being in a room. This made Blue special in her own right. But let's face it. Is a power that makes others stronger while leaving you blind to magic really that cool? No. No it was not. While never being made to feel like an outsider, Blue felt constantly on the outside of her own family when it came to their psychic forays. How she wished she could see the things Persephone saw, understand items the way Calla did with her touch, or read the cards the way Maura could. Every year on Saint Mark's Eve, Blue was asked to come along to the corpse road so that Maura might be able to see all the spirits of those that would die within the year all the more clearly. And every year Blue saw nothing. Blue lived in a world of magic but never got to use it the way the others did. She was always being used, nad never in a way that was even any fun for her. This caused Blue to be born and raised an outsider. She was different from her friends at school and she was different from her family. Blue's dress and appearance are meant to be a way to define herself as different, but the deep down truth is that her appearance is merely a shield. A way to guard herself against the inevitability of never quite fitting in before the wanting of belonging could crush her. "That seems …" Adam sought 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. Despite the fact that Blue looked like an outsider in a small southern town, Blue was far from the weird little child she let people imagine her to be. Everything about Blue's look said stylish, but not sensible. Everything about who Blue was said sensible. Very sensible. Blue is a logical sort of person. Everything she encounters is weighed carefully in her mind until a logical conclusion is found. Sometimes things are harder to explain than others, and sometimes her logic contradicts that of another. But her logic is never without reason. It can be that she considers something to be dangerous. It can be that something has occurred and that if it is not addressed it will occur again, so she logically must address it. It can be that she logically imagines a process for solving a problem when others want to dive in head first without looking at all the angles properly. Or it could be that looking at all the angles might not leave room for experimentation, so logically proceeding into the unknown has to eventually occur. Some way, somehow, logic dictates Blue's life. This leaves her as often coming off as sensible to her friends and family. This fact shocks Blue when she realizes the truth of it. How long has she tried to pretend that she is not sensible, but rather odd and different herself? Only to discover that she is quite sensible indeed. Unfortunately, sensible does not always mean tactful. Blue can be blunt. Actually, she almost delights in being blunt sometimes. Blue was raised with a strong sense of independence. Her desire to belong is buried deep down within Blue and overcome by a much stronger need: to be her own person. This is made rather easy by the fact that Maura never believed in commanding Blue. Instead, she always asked. Maura was simply blessed with a sensible and kind daughter who would generally do what she was asked to do. Due to this mutual respect and display of women's strength in one home, Blue grew up to believe in herself as a person. She's strong in her sense of self and sees no reason to apologize for who she is. “Nice, Blue. Gansey was right. You really can be a raging feminist.” Which is probably why she gets called a "raging feminist" so many times. It's hard not to be a feminist when you live only with women, and Blue was very much the product of the environment she was raised in. Her household proved to her that she did not need to rely on men to validate her existence. This did not mean that Blue hated men on principle, but she's unafraid to call anyone out on anything that invalidates who she is as a person and reduces her to who she is as a woman. She accuses Gansey of treating her like a prostitute when he tries to offer to pay for her missed time at work to meet his friend the first time they spoke, she yells at Adam for never thinking to include her as his girlfriend and only seeming to want to use her for kissing, and she even yells at a man who openly comments on how her legs look. Unashamed and unabashed, Blue goes to bat for all that she believes in, and sometimes a little too strongly. This is where the "raging" part of feminist comes from for her. However, it's not just feminism that can get her worked up. Sometimes she is truly worked up in anger, but the reality is the Blue is a very impassioned woman. She feels plenty of things strongly, and sometimes comes off aggressively because of it. Often, it can be anger, but other times its protectiveness or ferocity or admiration. The part of Blue that is strong in her identity is also strong in displaying that identity. Yet Blue is far from perfect. And as sensible as Blue is, even she can let her emotions get the best of her. When Maura disappears, she wars between sadness at losing her mother and the unfair anger at her mother having left her at such a dire time. Yet it doesn't matter when Blue settles on, because she will believe in her right to feel as she does. This also causes her to fight a lot with Adam, and she can often end up fighting with Gansey as well. Her fighting with Ronan goes without saying, he enjoys riling her up because she is so easy to rile. Blue's anger isn't her only problem, though. Blue is stubborn to a fault. Having been raised with the ability to always choose how to live her life, Blue is unused to taking enforced restriction well. She can let others take control of a situation but any control forced on her is unwelcome. When Maura makes her first ever command that Blue stay far from her friends, Blue does quite the opposite with only minimal guilt. Blue is capable of feeling guilt at times, but if she believes in what she's doing it can be hard for her to let guilt control her. It turns out, however, Maura was quite right to be concerned about Blue and Aglionby boys. Forever hanging over Blue's head is the curse she was fated to: if you kiss your true love, he will die. Not when, as Noah once asks her, but if. When might relieve her of some guilt, it's only happenstance that she might kiss a boy and he might die. If makes the fault all hers; her kiss is the kiss that dooms some poor boy. Maura's earlier warning to stay away from boys had never needed to be a command. It was always accepted by Blue that the best way to avoid kissing boys was to avoid them entirely, and Aglionby boys were bastards anyway. Yet these Aglionby boys tempted Blue with magic and dead Welsh kings and Blue wanted so badly to know these things they tempted her with. So Blue rebelled for the first time, and wound up entwined too deeply to ever willingly leave again. “You can be just friends with people, you know," Orla said. "I think it's crazy how you're in love with all those raven boys." Orla wasn't wrong, of course. But what she didn't realize about Blue and her boys was that they were all in love with one another. She was no less obsessed with them than they were with her, or one another, analyzing every conversation and gesture, drawing out every joke into a longer and longer running gag, spending each moment either with one another or thinking about when next they would be with one another. Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn't all-encompassing, that wasn't blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she'd had this kind, she didn't want the other.” The raven boys were quicksand. Meeting one always meant meeting all. Dating Adam meant knowing all the boys. Knowing all the boys meant realizing they weren't actually bastards after all. And with the spell broken came a whirlwind of relationships that swept them all up and threatened never to let them go again. Blue didn't have friends. This was a fact. Not a sad fact, but just a fact. Her peers at her public school, her coworkers, and all else had never intrigued her. It was the raven boys that finally showed her what friendship could be. Then they took that friendship and distorted it beyond the realm of healthy. Because any time Blue was free, she was usually with one boy or another. Or thinking of them. Or doing something for them. Or some thing that involved them. Unfortunately, this wasn't one sided. As obsessed as she was with them, they were obsessed with her. And each other. Blue's relationship, however, differed with each of them. Adam and Blue's relationship was rough one in the forming of it. At one point the pair had been boyfriend and girlfriend. They had settled into the terms so easily it felt natural. Yet Cabeswater and strife stretched their relationships until tension nearly snapped it. Ultimately, they decided that being friends was the better path to follow. It had taken time. It still took effort. Adam had his hangups, Blue her own. But the truth was, Blue loved Adam still. Maybe not in the way he had wanted, but enough that she would try. Even if she wasn't delicate in the trying. Ronan was a relationship that could not be defined because Ronan was a thing that could not be defined. Ronan was unknowable, something that caused fear for many. Blue refused to be afraid, though. Ronan was unknowable, but he was not terrifying. Not to her. Because as frustrating as he was, she refused to stand down. And she refused to back out. Noah was simpler. Noah was a puppy who Blue had adopted without knowing so but accepted it all the same. He followed her and she stayed with him. He was outside the rest of the boys in his own way, despite being a part of them. In this way Blue and Noah had a knowing between them that made things easier. It helped that she fed him energy as well, always willing to help keep him real because she could not lose Noah. Yet the more complicated Noah becomes the more she fears for him. She loves him, and to lose him would hurt no less even if he was already dead. Gansey is her true love. There's no denying it, really. What had started tumultuous had developed into love. The opposite of how her relationship with Adam had begun. It'd been a slow burn, low and steady. It had shocked her to realize that Blue could feel something for Gansey when she was certain they'd always be at odds with each other. But more and more they found each other grounding. When chaos settled in on them, the voice of the other was a comfort. Often they talked of nothing, and it always meant everything. Their love is dangerous, though. It could ruin friendships and ultimately kill Gansey. And still she holds a secret from Gansey she can't bear to tell him. He will die. Despite all their odds, though, and their occassional spats, the two were destined to each other in the end. Together, the five of them were a friendship that was dangerous. Orla had been the one to point out that it was too consuming. That there were friendships that didn't have to equal to obsession. Unfortunately, once Blue had the taste of it she couldn't leave it. She wouldn't. Even if in the end they would all leave her one day and she'd be left with nothing. And in a very circular way, it all comes back to a very hidden desire of Blue's: to belong. Something Blue can never tell the boys or the women or anyone really is that a deep part of herself wishes could live in Monmouth Manufacturing with the boys. That she could be one of Gansey's boys. Because as much of a feminist as she can be, she can't deny that there's a closeness to the boys that comes from living with each other. From knowing each other in a way she's denied by pure virtue of the fact that she's a girl.And in her lowest of moments, she dreams of being able to live with them and fully belong with them. With this desire, she contrasts Adam entirely. Adam does all he can to avoid moving into Monmouth. Blue dreams of moving into Monmouth. No matter how much they love and accept her as she is, this dream of hers never dies. Yet she perseveres as always. Because even with this sense of belonging comes a stronger sense to be her own person. Part of this need to belong, however, has started to ebb with time. This comes from her desire to be her own person. But there was something she never quite realized about herself, and that was that Blue was never quite whole herself. It wasn't that there was something missing in her life. It was more that there was an understanding that was missing, and she hadn't even realized it. Growing up with her "power," Blue never found the true value of it. Nor did she see it as a thing that was hers, but rather a thing to be used. A very crazed woman with similar power was the one to show her the truth of herself. Blue didn't simply amplify, she was a mirror. She reflected energy back. She made it brighter. With this knowledge of herself, Blue is able to find strength in the knowledge of who she is personally. She is able to understand her power better, and even put it to better use. While having learned before how to cut herself, Blue later starts to find that she can not only cut herself off but she can protect herself with her mirror abilities. She once explains to Artemus that the reason the Third Sleeper does not affect her is because she reflects him back on himself and deflects off herself. Artemus doesn't quite find this answer satisfying, but it's the best explanation for what Blue learns to do for herself. And with that power of understanding, Blue is able to become more rooted and confident in herself. Not that she was ever lacking confidence before. The influence of Maura was too deep to miss. Maura was as self-assured and self-fulfilled. Blue was her mother made young again. They shared the same sort of humor and desires and understanding. Maura means so much to Blue, and not because she didn't have a father. Blue never felt the absence of a father, though, when she had more than enough love from her mother. While Blue never felt a need for a father, she had certainly fantasized about a father more than enough times. It was more the mystery of him. The possibility. With an unknown father there seemed all this potential in the possibility of what he might be like. It used to take up her time trying to imagine who he might be, just for the chance to solve that mystery. Then there was Artemus in the flesh. A man who was taller than her and not quite her. A man who didn't know her. A man who was her father in blood, perhaps, but not her father. There was no gap for him to fill because there was no void with all the love in her life. He was just another man. The Gray Man was not just another man, though. Mr. Gray was another friend to add. Mr. Gray had once been a threat to the mystery of her father, but soon it was clear he made Maura happy. That was one point. He helped her friends. That was another point. And he shared her humor. That was all the points. With a man like him in her life, the role of father was finally fulfilled. But not in the way that she needed a father, but in a way that two similar souls found comfort in each other and came to care for one another. Despite her obsession with her boys, Blue is not entirely wanting elsewhere in her life. Blue is a whirlwind of a person, though. She is often kind, but that does not make her nice. She can be respectful, but she will not protect another's feelings for the sake of being nice. In this way she can be blunt. She can also be forceful and stubborn. Angry even. She is unapologetic of who she is, but often she will try to find a way to explain. Guilt is not foreign to her, and sometimes she can let go of things once they've been said once. She's passionate and deeply loyal to those around her. And she's unafraid of the unknown, making life that much more exciting for her to go out and experience. POWER: AMPLIFIER ⇢ ( canon ) In the books, Blue is said to have the ability to make things "louder" for people with psychic abilities. Soon this gets expanded to her amplifying energy along the ley line generally, including that of Cabeswater at times. This also allows Noah, as a ghost, to use her energy to make himself more solid. Essentially, Blue is a human battery to all things that use energy. Often times, these things can use her energy without her permission. However, she has been shown to be able to give more of her energy away at times. Touching people, for example, makes it stronger. And once, with Cabeswater, she opened herself up more to the forest and suddenly it produced a rainfall of petals around her and her friends. In this same vein, MENTAL FORTITUDE : ( canon/acquired ) Blue has learned the ability to cut herself off from things that use her energy. Having her energy used can be draining if used too much. On the corpse road, many souls passed through her body just to feel more of her energy. She nearly slept the whole next day and missed school due to the over-usage of her power. Noah once used her energy to destroy things in Monmouth. Blue became upset with how he used her energy, and ultimately cut him off from access to it. To avoid her power being used too much or used in a way she wouldn't approve of, Blue is able to mentally shield herself by imagining herself protected from these things. Thus, she can cut her power supply off if she so chooses. This has also allowed her to learn to protect herself against other psychics invasions. The Third Sleeper is shown to be unable to affect her, and mirrors unable to trouble her. Thus, she would be able to block her mind off from any mental powers that tried to hold sway over her. POWER AMPLIFIER : ( acquired ) In game, Blue's amplifying abilities will be honed to amplify the power of anyone with powers. It won't matter how they use their powers, Blue will be a human battery for them. It will work much the same way as it does above, with people being able to use it and even abuse it or have Blue give them more energy or cut it off should they abuse it. It won't change otherwise. She will not be able to amplify her own abilities, however. SECOND SIGHT ⇢ ( acquired ) Like the rest of those that live at 300 Fox Way, Blue will gain the ability of second sight. It'll be the same as her family's in that she will be able to see things more clearly, specifically the future. PRECOGNITION : The most notable gift of second sight is the ability to see the future. Every woman in Blue's family experiences their visions differently, and Blue will be no different. Her visions will be acquired through mirrors. As her powers manifest, these visions will be out of control. She will get them constantly whenever she looks in a mirror, and they will be of tons of things that are usually useless. What someone will have for breakfast, whose little league team will when, that Jen from a no-name company will get fired today, etc. Blue will need to learn how to both turn off the influx of visions she will receive when she looks in mirrors and to control what she sees. Controlling what she sees in a mirror will take time and practice. Shutting off the visions entirely will be easier to learn and require little energy. However, learning to control her visions will start to sap at her energy. Letting an influx of visions allows things to flow smoothly. Controlling what can be seen will require mental effort to halt and alter the flow to her advantage. This means that both choosing what to see and holding the vision for long periods of time can be draining on her. In the beginning, controlling will be a fatigue her greatly. As time goes, short bursts of controlling the vision will become easier. In time, longer bursts will become easier but the longer she holds the vision the more of a drain it will have on her. And if she tries to focus on aspects, depending on the aspect she chooses to focus on it can take the most energy. None of this will ever be easy on her, but the short and controlled bursts will be the easiest for her to do. SCRYING : Blue will gain the ability to scry. Typically this is done in water, but for Blue it will be done in mirrors. Part of this is searching the future and focusing her visions, but it will also help her be able to search out where people might be and what they are doing. SPIRIT SIGHT : Blue will also gain the ability to see spirits and communicate with them. This will include those who have passed or will pass, depending on times of the year ( ie. St. Mark's Eve ). With her amplification abilities, she can even make them more solid at times as well. 〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉 COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE: + Blue on the TDM + with Ronan + with Porthos LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: There was a thing about being psychic Blue had never really understood but she got it now. Being psychic gave one headaches. Many. Often. Or maybe it was just her. Maybe Calla and Persephone and Maura were too used to the onslaught of the future that headaches never came. Maybe when you grew up with it, you learned to cope with it much earlier that the headaches never had to come. Homesickness ached through her as she thought of how maybe she wouldn't get headaches if she had Maura here to teach her how to handle being psychic now. Blue had spent so long pining after her mother, wishing for her to be close. Now she was taken from her mother all over again. Blue felt the ache it deep inside her. It was almost as bad as the pain in her head. It wasn't just Maura that she missed, though. She missed Henrietta. She missed her aunts and cousins. She missed 300 Fox Way. No matter how much she tried to make De Chima home, she missed it all. At least she had her boys still. She couldn't bear to add the missing of them to the missing of everything else now. Blue laid out the small hand mirror she had carefully saved up to buy. It was an antique. It was beautiful. It was perfect for seeing the future within. If she was going to be a seer who peered through time, she wanted to do so in style at the least. The mirror felt grounding. Like the cards had for Maura and Persephone. Like touching did for Calla. They may not be with her, but she could carry their lessons. Or try. Always strive. So she tried now. Tested herself now. She would prove herself to be worthy of the Sargent blood in her veins. She may not have been born a psychic, but she would not disappoint the psychics in her life by failing now. She posed a question to herself. A question a customer might pose to her. A specific question that begged a specific answer. She took a deep breath, centered herself, then leaned into peer into the mirror. She saw nothing at first, a trick that had taken too long to master. Her own face stared back at her as she slowly unblocked her mind. She let the future slowly seep into the mirror. Color leaked across the glass and visions began to rush her all at once. Everything demanded to be seen and all at once. She frowned as she tried to stop it. The visions slowed, they lessened. She narrowed her mind, searching longer now. Deeper. Her mind carefully picked out the pieces of what she wanted. Everything around it. Forward. No too far. Back again. There. She held the vision before it disappeared in another wave of images. Her head began to ache again as she watched. As she waited. As time slowly played out the answer for her- "RONAN LYNCH!" She yelled, slamming her hand on the table as she stood. "Stay away from my lipstick!" FINAL NOTES: