Blue Lily, Lily Blue

There was a cave in Cabeswater, which was interesting because there hadn't been a cave in Cabeswater when they had discovered it. Or maybe it had existed, but in a different place. Cabeswater was like that. According to Adam, who was connected to Cabeswater, they had to have Cabeswater's trust before they could explore it, but what that entailed, none of them really knew.

So they were going to explore the cave.

( Amateur spelunking. )

((Text adapted somewhat from Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater. NFB, NFI due to distance.))

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.))