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Who, she wondered, did Ronan Lynch pray to now?
All three dreamers threw themselves into a dream.
“I don’t know what the Lace told you about me,” Ronan replied, “but not all of it was true.”
He was Greywaren, and he belonged in both worlds.
Adam had recently realized Ronan was a weakness to his ambition, since it was harder to work with two moving pieces rather than one, but he couldn’t talk himself out of it.
He just lived in the moment with Ronan instead.
He intended for this forest to tell him how to exist in the future as a dreamer. He intended for this forest to be able to survive without him. He intended for this forest to want him.
(It was about Adam, of course.)
Neither Ronan nor Adam had been trained in the difficult and nuanced art of having a future. They had only ever learned the art of surviving the past.
“Shit’s about to get real touching and I worked too hard to not get the satisfaction of seeing it go down.”
Slowly, Ronan Lynch sputtered to movement, trying to sit up even before his body was fully willing, scrambling, his voice disbelieving: “Adam?” Adam, who had been sitting quietly all this time beside Ronan, grinned weakly as Ronan seized him around the neck in a crushing, desperate hug.
Ronan’s face was pressed into Adam’s neck. To see how Adam’s face just wore a raw relief, a peace, as he held on to Ronan, his eyes open and gazing up into the blue sky. To see Ronan finally say something into his ear and Adam close his eyes and sigh.
“When I look at moments like this, two men in love, reunited against all odds, their feelings so pure, their commitment so deep that they’ll literally cross space-time for each other, all I can really think is: I can’t believe how these two blokes will owe Jordan Hennessy for the rest of their fucking lives.”
Declan Lynch had become such a liar.
“Tell them to leave my family alone,” Ronan told Mór. “Or I’ll deliver the next one in person.”
“It occurred to Blue and me the other day that being a teenager really sucked.”
Without taking his