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President Cell Phone (he hates that nickname, but then...Jane so he doesn't much have room to talk) called a meeting. It's about time they properly saw Monmouth in and got this quest off the ground. Really, Gansey just wants to see all of his people in one place. He's still a bit unsettled about everyone's position in the city. Blue has moved into Monmouth, which Gansey likes, but it's also changed the dynamic of things, or at least he thinks that's what's changed the dynamic. Ronan has been by Monmouth and rattled through his room, taking stock Gansey thinks, but he hasn't stayed the night. It's not unusual for Ronan; there are nights back in Henreitta that his bed goes unslept in as well. Adam hasn't ever lived at Monmouth, but Gansey wants to give him one last offer and he wants to make certain that everyone knows they're welcome to stay here.

Not to mention the quest. He's not certain if it's the same quest to find Glendower or whether it's a different quest, to find a way out of here so they can return to the Glendower quest. Either way, it's something for Gansey to research, something for him to take notes on and something for him to occupy his time with. It's an important facet of Gansey. He's secretly (not so secretly) an obsessed individual that can easily fall into depression without something to focus on, something productive to obsess about.

In any case, meeting. Yes. There's pizza and Jane has cleaned up a bit. Gansey had to run her out of the main room because things are scattered just the way he likes. He's shuffling through papers on his desk and making notes, mint leaf between his teeth when everyone starts to arrive. He'll put that aside to mingle.

[Open to Ronan, Adam, Noah, Blue and Gansey. Mingle style. I'll probably do a formal 'let's get this meeting started' gansey thing further down. No particular posting order. Let me know if you want Ronan or Gansey in particular, otherwise...have fun? I just wanted TRC buds things]

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There's no reason to run again, Adam. And if Gansey and Blue are going to be shocked, Noah, for one, isn't, because he knew. He'd watched and seen and now they know too.

His expression might be vaguely, smudgily smug with a bit of longing mixed in there. Not that anyone is looking.

He does, though, wonder where he fits: Blue and Gansey, even if they can't kiss. Now Ronan and Adam. Where does that leave the newly-real boy?

He pulls the sleeves of his sweater down over the palms of his hands.

Blue would like to point out that Ronan's relationship with Adam isn't exactly a pertinent answer to her question. Actually, she doesn't think it's pertinent to this discussion at all. But she's too much in shock to actually say so aloud.

She hadn't expected that. She's happy for them. Very happy. But also a little bit angry. She and Gansey agreed to keep that nothing that exists between them a continued secret even here so that they don't hurt Adam. And apparently, Adam's been in a (happy? insane? some sorta crazy?) relationship all along.

She gawks at them for a second more before glowering at Gansey and then looking at Noah with some concern. She doesn't miss that look of longing in his eyes. Quietly, she gets up and wraps her arms around the smudgy boy in a hug. She might not feel for him in the same way she does Gansey, but she still cares.

Gansey isn't shocked, not really. He's known Ronan liked boys for years and he'd recently realized that Ronan might have a bit of a crush on Adam, but he hadn't been aware that Adam liked Ronan, or boys in general so he is a bit gobstopped at the whole show.

He blinks a bit, processing this whole thing and he feels like a fool, such a fool, for being afraid that he and Blue would hurt Adam with the sliver of a relationship that he can have with Blue. He is happy for Adam. He's happy for Ronan and he hopes they'll be good for each other rather than self destruct together.

Gansey catches that glower and clears his throat, looking down at the journal. His eyes follow Blue as she moves across the room to hug Noah. He nods a bit at Blue, glad that she's hugging Noah because he loves all of them, not the way he loves Blue, but they are all an intricate part of Gansey that he doesn't know how to function without.

Gansey rubs at his temple then speaks. "All right. I think its rather obvious that the weather is more Cabeswater than real and the fact that we seem to be able to wish things into existence here seems to support that. I know Adam mentioned to me that he kept up with the ley lines so we know the power can be depleted, or at least that power can be depleted. We have to separate how much power is coming from the ley lines and how much comes from the people overseeing this town. Or I think we should. Thoughts?"

Ronan slides his hand from Adam's neck down to circle his wrist so that Adam can't easily run off. Outside of the fear that Adam is going to take off, Ronan is enjoying this. Sorry, but is anyone really surprised? He doesn't enjoy the way Noah looks like someone kicked him and that's obvious in the way his brow furrows in the way his expression clouds over a little. In this situation he's not sure what to do to make that look on Noah's face go away. He can't storm out on Gansey and his meeting to drag Noah into doing something stupid and Ronan isn't much of a hugger. He's relieved when Blue goes over to hug Noah. It means he doesn't have to do anything. He presses his lips together as he watches Blue and Noah, then looks back to Gansey.

His brow furrows when Gansey lets the cat out of the bag that the power can be depleted. He glances to Adam. Ronan has just been dreaming willy nilly without any thought of depleting the ley lines, without any thought of it having a negative effect on Adam. He lives with him. He'd see if there were a negative effect, wouldn't he? "Why didn't you tel me that the power could be depleted?"

Then his attention gets turned back to Gansey. "These guys don't make that regular an appearance. For all we know, the power can be sucked dry. Barns showed up here just before everyone got sick." He has no idea if the two things are related or not, but he thinks it's worth mentioning.

If they were still in Henrietta it would have been different. If he and Ronan had not had all this time alone to grow closer and only have each other to lean on, it would have been different. It isn't like Adam and Ronan set out to hurt Blue or Gansey by falling for each other. It isn't like he hid anything from anyone. Well, until they arrived in Itinere. When he and Ronan had started this, the thought of Blue's rejection had still burned. Sometimes it still did. Ronan made it better. Ronan Lynch wanted Adam Parrish and vice versa. That was not a slight to anyone. Except now, with this reaction, it sort of feels like it is for reasons unknown.

When Adam finally looks up again, he isn't sure what to make of the look on Noah's face either. He'd seemed fine with it earlier. Now it felt like it was not okay with him, like they had upset him. And maybe like they had upset Blue and Gansey somehow too. Blue was hugging Noah like he was... upset? Blue's look is odd too. Gansey's. He doesn't get it.

Ronan's hand on his wrist is the only thing keeping him sitting here. How was it even about Noah? Or Blue? Or Gansey? This was his one good thing.

Those last thoughts leave him feeling selfish. This one thing that was his getting this reaction from them is what he should have expected. Not the seeming understanding he'd gotten from Noah downstairs earlier. He knew that had been too easy. Of course this was an issue for the lot of them.

Adam has to look down so as not to see whatever is going on with everyone else in the room, reactions he has no context for and really doesn't get. He barely even registers that what Gansey said was a cat being let out of the bag. He shrugs. "I'm taking care of it." For you, Ronan. He's taking care of it for you.

"I think most of the power is them. Not Cabeswater." He says. "I'd feel it if someone else was using it."

Everyone is over-reacting, okay? Noah, for the record, has a lot on his plate at the moment (and none of it is pizza).

First and foremost is being real and all that comes with that, which is complicated. He has to eat. And sleep (and shower and ... other things). And walk places (and run on occasion). He can die (most likely).

And so, with being real, it's a matter, then, of seeing where he fits. Four-sided things make sense. Five-sided things are more rare and weaker, right? Geometrically speaking.

Noah is, for the record, fine with Ronan and Adam being boyfriends. Adam seems to be good for Ronan, softening the razor edges to make them less dangerous to fall on. That has nothing to do with Noah (or Blue, or Gansey, even). Just like Noah's death ultimately doesn't have anything to do with the others (as far as he knows).

And Blue and Gansey are still Blue and Gansey and they can't kiss and Blue is hugging Noah now and she smells good and he hugs her as best he can at this awkward angle.

It's called showering regularly. And maybe using shampoos and body wash that are infused with flowery scents. She's a girl. Really, she can't help but smell nice. Someone in this group has to set the standard.

It also doesn't matter to Blue if the angle is awkward. She hugs him back and then, rather than moving back to her original seat, she stays next to Noah. Blue rests her head against his shoulder in silent support. She doesn't think that Gansey would mind much. Noah's alive again and has so much to deal with that she thinks he could use the comfort. And it's not like the other boys are so touchy-feely.

Although, apparently, Ronan is when it comes to his boyfriend. A lot more than she expected. It makes Blue wonder what else is under that asshole persona he likes to project.

She's grateful that Gansey keeps the conversation on track. She listens to them talk and then looks up when Adam says one word. "Them? The people in charge here? You think the magic comes from them and not the ley lines that run through this city?"

Gansey quite enjoys the way Blue smells as well. It's been interesting the last few days, walking into the bathroom after she's showered and left it smelling like her. He's been loathe to cover that scent with his own body wash. He showers quite regularly, thank you very much. He just doesn't smell like Blue when he does.

Gansey doesn't mind much. It's Noah and he believes he knows how Blue feels about Noah. Even if he doesn't, he doesn't really feel as if he's got any right to take anything from Noah. He's already alive because Noah is dead. That's quite enough to take from him, isn't it?

Gansey would testify to Ronan being a very complicated asshole.

He purses his lips at Adam's revelation and scribbles in his notebook a bit. "That would make them far more powerful than anyone or anything we've encountered thus far, which is probably stating the obvious a bit," he admits. "However, we ought to assume they've some sort of power limits. Perhaps it's time to start testing those?"

Ronan has always been a little more touchy-feely with Adam than he was with the others. He'd throw his legs across Adam's in the backseat of the Pig and lean against Adam when it wasn't strictly necessary, but he'd been careful there for so many reasons. One of those reasons being Blue. He's not quite the asshole he projects and yet at the same time he is. He's deep, okay?

"I know the Barns didn't come from the ley lines and it had to take a fuck ton of power to get it here right." And it was right, down to the mice sleeping in the grain bags.

He grins at Gansey's suggestion. "Now you're talking. I can dream up a shit load of things to piss these guys off."

Adam sits in silence, listening to the others. His feathers just a little bit ruffled that Blue shows more concern for the others than she he feels she has ever shown for him. Deep down, he knows that's his fault. Adam Parrish is now always so accepting of people trying to know him or help him or support him.

It's hard to be Adam's friend. He knows that. It's even harder to be anything more than that, as evidenced by his history on such matters.

Which brings him to Ronan, Ronan who likes a challenge, who fights hard enough for the both of them. Ronan's hand around his wrist tethers him, relaxes him. And slowly, his shoulder eases in to relax and press into Ronan's. A sign that he'll see this through and is with Ronan with or without the tethering baring any other complications.

"They're powerful. Like genies." He glances at Noah and then quickly away again, remembering the analogy the other had made not long ago. "You wish for something and it's here... for the most part."

At Ronan's suggestion, Adam arches a brow, staring at his notes. "You wanna piss off the most powerful beings we've ever encountered? I'm voting against that."

"Me too," Noah says quietly. Wrath, after all, can be dangerous. It's his turn to glance at Ronan and away. He's alive now, for whatever reason. Who knows what will happen if whoever runs this place gets pissed off? Maybe Noah will just poof back to being a ghost, just like that.

Genies. Blue doesn't know all that much about them aside from what she remembers reading in a copy of Arabian Nights that she had borrowed once from the Henrietta Public Library. But it does seem to be an apt description. She had wanted a way to get around Itinere faster and had woken up to see her bicycle from home. Monmouth's here, almost an exact duplicate except for the extra rooms that got added for her and Adam. According to Ronan, the Barns are here exactly like he's remembered. And most important? Noah's alive.

Wishes coming true. It's a scary thought, just how powerful these people might be. But it's also something that makes her fall quiet. If they can grant wishes, if they can grant them like Glendower might once they awaken him, could she wish for Gansey's life? Could she finally kiss him, and with one wish, counteract the curse that's haunted her most of her life?

Quietly, "I'm with Adam and Noah."

Because she needs to seek these people out now. See just how many wishes they can make come true.

Gansey knew about the wishes. He and Adam had discussed it when he'd first arrived so he's not surprised by the reveal about the people that run this place. There's no other explanation for Monmouth being here, for the Pig being on the street. Most importantly, Noah is alive. Gansey doesn't know how they've managed that but he is so grateful for it.

He hasn't thought about them being able to circumvent Blue's prophecy. He would like nothing more than to kiss Blue, to be able to kiss her anytime he liked, but that's not something that genies can fix, is it? If it is, it's not something he's thought they could fix.

In response to Ronan's answer, Gansey pinches the bridge of his nose. He doesn't look up until after everyone else has cast their opinion. "I think perhaps we ought to explore their boundaries and sources of power before we start pissing them off," he suggests calmly. "Adam, is it all right if I bring the Pig to your garage tomorrow? I'd like for you to look at it and make certain that everything under the hood is the same." He doesn't want those assholes to have fixed his car.

Ronan grumbles because no one ever wants to do what we wants to do. No, not really. Ronan is grumbling just to grumble and scowl. He hadn't expected anyone to want to piss off the people that run this place. Ronan isn't even sure that he wants to piss those people off. This place has been pretty awesome and even more so now that Noah, Gansey, and Blue are here.

"Fine," he scowls. "They managed to recreate the barns right down to mice sleeping in the grain sacks."

Adam nods at Gansey's request. He'd like to look at the Pig's engine again. It would be interesting to see if there were any changes. They're all welcome at the garage any time. Ronan is there a lot just to drive him crazy. No one has to work. Ronan doesn't. But Adam is so used to it, he'd needed at least one job... something to keep him busy and make him feel useful, like he was doing something. Adam needs to work. And so Parrish's Garage had appeared in Itinere.

"You're all missing the big messed up point here." He says quietly. "I didn't ask for the garage. Ronan didn't ask for the Barns. Things just appear when we think we need them... a passing thought."

He pauses, looking around the room at each and every person as that sinks in. "They're connected to us... in here." He taps his index finger against his brow. "They can read our thoughts. Whether it's the people who seem to be in charge, three that I can count so far, or whether this place is sentient in some way, it's in our heads."

Adam wouldn't wish his thoughts on anyone, as dark as they can often be. And the way he shifts uncomfortably when he's done putting that out there, it's obvious that he does not like the idea. Adam tries so hard not to abuse the privilege. Because it's just a reminder of that greatest of intrusions.

He shrugs, hands gesturing out dramatically. And Adam is not a dramatic person unless he's uncomfortable or upset beyond the ability to keep it inside. "For all I know, I wished Cabeswater and the ley lines here."

Which of course brings back the idea that Noah was somehow wished here and somehow made real.

Honestly, he doesn't mind that idea, not really, because it means that he matters. But who would go to the trouble of wishing him here, after all?

"If we can't control it," he says with a small shrug. "There's no point in getting worked up about it, is there?" It isn't as if they can change it then.

Blue had grown up in a house full of psychics. But psychics aren't mind readers. And she looks distinctly uncomfortable at the thought that someone here might be reading her mind. Does that mean they already know about her desire to be free of her curse? Or how she wants to save Gansey's life? Or how grateful she is to see Noah alive, far more real boy than ghostly apparition? It's an unnerving thought and she's not so sure she agrees with Noah.

"No one should be allowed in your head like that," she counters. Her eyes narrow as she frowns, ready to tell off her friends as if they're the ones responsible for this situation. "It's an invasion of privacy, to say the least. A violation. I didn't ask to be brought here. Same with any of you. But just because we are here, doesn't give anyone the right to poke around in our minds like that."

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