After Neeve met up with Whelk, she tasered him and tied him up in the back seat of his car. The rubber gloves Neeve wears and the knives she brought make it clear she intends to use him for the ritual to wake the ley line, but Whelk is sure he won’t die because “Neeve hadn’t tied him tightly enough” (371).

Adam visits Blue at her house, telling her he’d like to kiss her. Changing the subject and still not revealing the prophecy, Blue tells Adam he’s very brave, to which Adam shrugs. That night, Adam wakes, feeling homesick. He wants his own life and a true home, things he knows he can get if he wakes Glendower. As he sneaks out of the apartment, he sees Gansey curled up on his bed in the main room, and Adam tells himself he isn’t betraying Gansey because “we’re still doing this together. Only, when I come back, we’ll be equals” (378).

Gansey wakes to the sound of his car starting. He finds Adam’s room empty and wakes Ronan, feeling betrayed that “Adam’s gone to wake the ley line” (380).