Gansey lips twitched unhappily. He remembers that weekend well for so, so many reasons, of which Ronan stealing his car and crashing it was near the top of the list. That wasn't important.

What was important was that there were things Ronan knew out of his time. In that moment, Gansey could picture each of his friends coming to this place alone, frightened, lacking answers just like Gansey did. But Gansey had been lucky enough to walk into his royal court. What had happened when Blue got here? Adam? Ronan? Who was first? Which of them had been the unfortunate one? Secretly, he hoped it was Adam. Adam was the one Gansey was the most confident could make it on his own.

All he had to do was look at Ronan's face to know the first hadn't been Adam.

"We found Maura. She's okay. Matthew's okay." He started to say everyone's fine, but that wasn't true. If Ronan were to return home right then, he'd find a big, big piece of his life missing. Gansey couldn't bear to tell him like this. Not when everything else was so messed up.

There was no easy way to do any of this, so he dove in. "Did you know about me? What Blue saw on the corpse road?"