“Why would you go alone?” Blue asked. She flung her arms around him, and he felt her trembling. “I was trying to be heroic,” Gansey said, holding her tight. She was real. They were all real. They’d all come here for him, in the middle of the night. The completeness of his shock told him that no part of him had really thought they would do such a thing for him. “I didn’t want you guys to hurt anymore.”
