“Next time I’ll let you die,” Blue said. “You forget, Adam, when you’re pulling your special snowflake act, where I grew up. Do you know what the phrase is for when someone helps you during a ritual or a reading? It’s thank you. You shouldn’t have brought us if you wanted to do it alone.” He remembered this: He had been lost. Which meant that if he had come alone, he would have been dead now. “Sorry,” he said. “I was being sort of a dick.” Noah replied, “We weren’t going to say it.” “I was,” Blue said.
