"Brownies," Adam says, vaguely uncertain of how he knows that. Blue must have mentioned it once but they'd all been so fraught around her birthday. "Protests and brownies for Blue."

When Ronan doesn't pull away, Adam shifts to braid their fingers together and than puts an arm around Noah's shoulders, just because.

Gansey's absence is still palpable but the three of them, like this, links in a chain. It's a start.