[ Those words take Gansey so strongly back to Ronan's car, sitting in The Barns, where Ronan had sat dull-eyed after he'd found his mother. In reality, that was only hours ago - less than one day, from their perspective. But time had twisted around them, and it feels like far longer than that has passed. Ronan seems different, too; more active than he had been, because he'd had to make himself focus on a different crisis.

In a way that had helped, probably, but it doesn't mean it's where grief ends. ]

I know you will. You always have.

[ More than any of them have, Ronan has. ]

The thing is, I'm not sure where I'm leading now. None of it ended the way I thought. Not Glendower, not Cabeswater...none of it. And I didn't exactly have plans for afterwards, anyway. We'll need a new direction now, every one of us.