Open | Action: When the ghost becomes a boy

[deathbysk8board]

It isn't so much that Noah walks through a door. After all, he's more spirit than boy, more energy than being. But somehow, when he finds himself on a near a copse of trees, he seems to have a body. He can't tell if he's cold or not - he never felt cold, after all, even when he was dead and people said he was cold.

But this isn't Cabeswater. This isn't anywhere he's been. He doesn't know where he is and he doesn't know where his friends are.

And ... well, the things he doesn't know outnumber the things he does know and he's scared (which ... probably isn't a surprise). He wrings his hands together, turning a slow circle and he moves to where he's standing on a sidewalk.

"H-hello?" he manages. Can anyone even hear him without Blue's energy? Will Ronan and the others find him? The smudgy boy looks around, wide-eyed, his faded Aglionby sweater hanging loosely on him.

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[makeslouder]

Very uncomfortable. Not that Blue has any idea that Ronan and Adam are anything more than friends at the moment. Still, the apartments here aren't very big. At least the one she stayed in wasn't. Three boys in such a cramped space can't possibly be a good idea.

A little sheepishly, Blue admits, "I only peered in once. I was trying to figure out which room belonged to me."

[deathbysk8board]

"Even before I came here, nobody went in Ronan's room," Noah explains. "I bet it's still the same here."

He likes that, actually - that nothing has changed. Since he's kind of what's changed, and the location has changed, some things staying the same is good, at least from Noah's perspective.

[makeslouder]

For Blue, the changes in her life had come when she had been let into the Raven boys’ secret world. As a result, she’s changed. It is more than just breaking her two cardinal rules. She’s a little more daring, a little more willing to take risks that otherwise sensible Blue would never consider. And sometimes? Sometimes she’s so tired of being sensible. She wants to be free to do whatever she wants. To drive anywhere without checking in. To scream her anger and worry at her mother for disappearing. To kiss Gansey.

“If you mean messy and possessing its own distinct smell, I’d say you’re right.”

[deathbysk8board]

If Noah had any ability at all - which he doesn't - he would make those things possible for her, he would.

Noah would give Blue the moon if he could. But he can't. He can't really do anything, except, apparently, exist.

He smiles, though, at her comment. "So ... " he asks, "What now?"

[makeslouder]

That Noah exists is gift enough to Blue. She can't imagine her life without him in it. Without any of the raven boys. Blue loves them all and she has no doubt that they love her too, each in their own way. They're all in love with each other, she and her raven boys, and Blue knows that these friendships have been more than worth waiting for. Though she has her wishes, she could never be scornful of what she does have.

"Now," she begins, linking her arm in Noah's. "We go to Monmouth like we have before. But this time, I don't have to leave."