[ It's not going to be easy, being back here. Hadriel has its own problems, and Gansey is well aware that they're not nearly over the problems of Henrietta. The climax of the demon's attack, Adam's possession, Ronan's unmaking, Gansey's death - that has finished. But the pain of how their quest had ended, the worse pain of Aurora's death, the loss of Cabeswater - that will take longer. Gansey doesn't know how to address any of it right now.

Especially where Ronan is concerned. He'd lost his mother. He's holding himself together now, but Gansey doesn't expect that to last. The Ronan who'd sat in the car, barely speaking to anyone, still haunts his thoughts. That emotion is still in there somewhere.

He nods, though. Right now, they all just need to catch their breath. Gansey had run straight here from where he'd woken, and he'd been dead right before that. He thinks, maybe, he could use a few minutes alone. He needs to pack that emotion away into something he can move forward with. He thinks Ronan might need the same. ]

Okay. I don't think I had much, anyway. My journal, though...

[ The new one, he means. The one he'd found here and had been using to record findings in Hadriel. He moves towards the living room, trying to remember where he'd had it last. ]

I'll find it. Listen, let me know if you see Noah? If we're back, he has to be. We wouldn't have left him behind.

[ They couldn't have. Noah had been so faded at home, and so vulnerable. But here, he's real and alive. They have to find him, too. ]