Of course, Gansey was not on time for his reading. The appointment time came and went. No Gansey. (There had been a drop-in reading earlier in the afternoon, a man in his mid-twenties who insisted on anonymity and whom Persephone, Calla, and Maura were insistent Blue should avoid in the future.) And, perhaps more disappointingly, no phone call from Adam, the strangely nice raven boy Blue had met the night before at her weekend-and-summer job as a waitress at Nino's, the local pizza parlor--along with his friends, one of whom was one of the most raven boy raven boys Blue had ever met, and another of whom was either Ronan from Fandom High or a dead ringer for him. He hadn't recognized Blue, so she couldn't be sure. She was privately calling their leader President Cell Phone.
Just as the local psychics had just about concluded that maybe Maura had told him the wrong day, and Persephone had begun to consider making a pie (and Blue had concluded that Gansey had blown it off, Orla howled fro the Phone Room, her wordless wail eventually resolving itself into words:
( There is a 1973 Camaro in front of the house! )
((Yeah, Maura, that's going to go great. Adapted and abridged from Chapter 15 of The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater. NFB due to distance.))
Just as the local psychics had just about concluded that maybe Maura had told him the wrong day, and Persephone had begun to consider making a pie (and Blue had concluded that Gansey had blown it off, Orla howled fro the Phone Room, her wordless wail eventually resolving itself into words:
( There is a 1973 Camaro in front of the house! )
((Yeah, Maura, that's going to go great. Adapted and abridged from Chapter 15 of The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater. NFB due to distance.))