[ Gansey nods. That much is true. ]

No. I died on the ley line, and that was enough. Enough to stop the demon, I think.

[ He remembers Blue’s lips. Then there was oblivion, and then there was oblivion ending, and the feeling of eternity inside of him, condensing itself, building him around it. He’d gone from nothing to everything in an instant.

But it had happened before. Or it would happen again. Or it was always happening, at every moment. That’s how it seems to him. Time slips around him because there’s some part of him, the Cabeswater part, that moves differently in time from the rest of him.

It’s so strange. But at least he understands it now. ]

You brought me back. All of you. You asked Cabeswater, and it…gave itself for me. It remade me, Ronan. I know it sounds impossible, but it’s me.

It’s the truth, I promise you.