The way Adam says her name sends a shiver through Blue, like it might be a warning to her about what she's about to do or it might just be startled, moved.

She turns toward him, letting Ronan and Noah see her back, her eyes questioning and searching, a little, to see how he's doing himself. She thinks of them alone in the other city, in the store. Whatever this is, doing this to them, they can handle it together. Right?

Ronan swears when he sees it, and Noah tugs her close without warning, and the whole thing is too much suddenly. Even though neither of those things are, by themselves, unusual, it's a reaction to something she had no choice over and it prickles at her.

She extricates herself from Noah's grip with a little apologetic look, glancing back at Adam and over her shoulder at Ronan bewildered. "What?"