It's a story, but if this is really Gansey -- and, right now, Ronan has no reason to believe it's not, despite Darrow's penchant for tricks -- it's the truth in at least one world. The world Ronan came from and can't forget.

His lips twitch into a grimace and he shakes his head, a laugh bubbling free of his chest that borders on the hysterical.

"No," he says, short and to the point. "No. Fuck. Fuck, Gansey. You already fucking died once, why would you--" Except he knows why. Because Adam was possessed, he'd said. Because Noah was decaying. Because Ronan was dying. "So you just-- you died and it stopped? All of it?"