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[mintly]

You've reached Gansey. I must be preoccupied, please leave a message.

...

If necessary, you may also leave messages for Ronan Lynch, who can rarely be bothered to answer his own phone.





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text

[casperdisaster]

Ganswy its noah please. Let me know if you gey this

text

[mintly]

Noah? I'm here, I just can't get out of this car. Where are you? Are we on a ley line?

[and how is he typing? noah has good days and bad days, but ones where he'd be able to type have been few and far between lately.]

[casperdisaster]

I don't know. I'm trapped in a car too. I'm scared.

text

[unknowable]

Gansey? Please tell me you're there.

text

[mintly]

As though I'd be anywhere else, Parrish. Ronan's here too, just in case he didn't deign to answer your texts. I waited TWO HOURS.

What the fresh hell have we gotten into?

[except really he's so, so relieved to see adam's text.]

text

[unknowable]

Thank god. Ronan answered me eventually, yeah. Noah's here, too, somehow.

You're stuck on some kind of train too?

[Adam's relief cannot be quantified in words, so he won't even try.]

Saturday June 20th

[casperdisaster]

[The text's timestamp reads that it arrived around midday.]

Gansey text Adam when you get this he has your mint and your epipen we weren't sure if you'd be brought back with them so he's holding onto them.

I'm sorry

Sunday June 21st

[casperdisaster]

[Timestamp shows the wee hours of the morning.]

I think it was my fault I'm supposed to be dead you're supposed to be alive that's how it goes its my fault im sorry gansey it should have been me

Monday June 22nd

[casperdisaster]

[Again, wee hours of the morning.]

I heard not everyone comes back always. Please come back.

Wed 6/24

[greywaren]

Come back.

Fri 6/26 6:05am (1/?)

[mintly]

I'm back.

[mintly]

I'm in a supermarket maybe if it was also a mad scientist laboratory and some kind of witch machine

[mintly]

I woke up on a morgue table Ronan

Can you get off the train?

[mintly]

Please come get me I think I hear gunshots

Don't get killed

Bring Adam and Noah too

Please don't get killed.

a few minutes after the others (done)

[mintly]

i'm so sorry

Monday 6/29

[casperdisaster]

I woke up in a new car. Sorry I kidnapped your clothes, I'll have them washed and back to you at the next stop, ok?

[mintly]

Me too. There isn't even a real bathroom, just a hole. I made a nest and am never coming out except it's also hot.

You can keep the clothes if you want them, Noah. I don't mind.

7/2

[unknowable]

[Adam debated for a long time over whether to send this photo or not. Ronan would most definitely be happier with it deleted, but that was never an option. On the other hand, Adam selfishly wanted to keep it to himself, keep that one tiny moment in time locked away where no one else could see.

But doing that would have meant something that Adam isn't ready to confront. Anyway, Gansey made the crown, Gansey asked him to talk Ronan into putting it on, so Gansey should see it. Also, more practically, if Ronan ever manages to take Adam's phone and delete the picture, at least there'll be another copy somewhere.

So once they're back on the train and he's had time to battle his selfish desires, Adam texts Gansey the photo. It's surprisingly good, considering it was taken in a rush, which is all down to luck rather than Adam's phone picture skills, of which he has none.

Ronan is looking away, the flower crown resting on his brow. The delicacy and beauty of the flowers accentuate the sharpness of his features. Gansey was right, the crown does suit him, though it doesn't make him look any less dangerous. Only more wild, more like a wolf than a dog, like he'd be right at home in a forest, like maybe he's something not totally human. A handsome, perilous god.

There's no accompanying message.]

about 10 minutes later

[mintly]

[gansey lies there, curled in his blankets, stunned at the picture on his screen. he has always known ronan is handsome, that only the way he carries himself can sometimes obscure that. but somehow, adam managed to capture gansey's knight, cabeswater's greywaren, in one simple photograph.

ronan would be so, so angry.

he saves it in several places, making it unlikely anyone will find them all. he wants to have this forever, because it's the truest picture of ronan he's ever seen.

his response to adam is wordless as well. he sends the picture he took of adam in his crown, all delicate bones and fierce concentration, the wreath of flowers perfectly at home in his henrietta-dust hair, otherworldly and beautiful. adam deserves to know how gansey sees him sometimes, regardless of whether he knows what to feel about it.]

Sometime after Gansey's network post re: clones

[casperdisaster]

Did you find out what you were hoping to?

[mintly]

Yes.

They take our souls and put them in clone bodies. Everything is frozen at home until we come back. When we do, we'll forget everything that happened here.

We don't have anything to lose, Noah.

sometime during their new transition on the cars

[interception]

you're getting lessons with everyone else.

(Yeah see Max doesn't bother to introduce himself or let Gansey know who this is. A failure of text etiquette for sure but also Max just being Max.

All the others figured it out though so Max can only assume Gansey will too.)

[mintly]

[gansey's pretty clever, and there's only two people he knows about giving lessons. the other one is rook, and he sure as hell wouldn't be offering anything to gansey.]

Ramsey?

What lessons?

[interception]

you died. from bad water.

(Serious conversation time right fucking now, Gansey.)

[mintly]

I am not having this conversation over text, Ramsey.

I'll be over.