· We begin with a psychic-cam. Persephone, an airy fairy psychic, tries to guide Adam into being similarly airy-fairy about communicating with the ley line. During this lesson they uncover the understanding that there are three supernatural sleepers on the ley line near them. One, Persephone decides, should definitely not be woken.
· Meanwhile, Calla is having a psychic moment of her own, enhanced by Blue. When trying to make contact with Maura, she instead makes contact with … something else, which chants a little ditty in her ear. “Queens and kings, kings and queens, blue lily, lily blue—“ “Gosh,” interrupts the reader. “Is that the title?”
· Maura, the final psychic-cam, spends this entire time wandering in a cavern in an undisclosed location, searching for Blue’s long-lost biological father, Artemus. She doesn’t find him, but she finds a creepy mirrored lake.
· The teens go spelunking in Cabeswater to look for both Maura and Glendower. Do they find them? No. Here’s what they find: Gansey falling into a hole and having a panic attack. As Blue talks him down, ravens burst out of the hole around him, calling Make Way for the Raven King! in dubious Latin.
· Post-spelunking, the teens head into a different sort of dark hole: Washington D.C.! Gansey’s ancient professor friend Malory is coming into town to explore the ley line with them and they’re fetching him from the airport.
· Probably I should mention that Gansey touches Blue’s fingers during this car ride and the narrative strongly urges you to consider this sexy, which is a demonstration of how little game any of these characters have. Later, Blue gets even friskier when she secretly calls Gansey so they can talk about Congress and faxes. This is not code. This is their relationship. A little further on, there’s also a sensual yogurt-eating paragraph.
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