Infinity, Adam thinks again. The loop that has no beginning or end. Noah made Gansey and Gansey found Ronan and Adam and they found Blue and Blue powered them all and Blue needed them, needed Gansey to live, and everything they knew of Gansey was made from Noah's dying, eternal command.

"It's a good thing you made pancakes, Noah," he says, unable to process the depth, the complexity of it all. "Since everything is circular."

It's a bad joke. Stupid, inappropriate, but he likes to believe it's the kind of thing Gansey would say right now. Gansey, master at tension-breaking. Adam, who lives in tension.