Gansey was dazed, distant, and Laurent had no patience for it. How dared Gansey need soothing and comforting, when this was all his fault? He'd left, he'd upset and abandoned Laurent, and then he'd returned with a threat and had needed to be rescued. Or was he in league with that stranger, that foul-mouthed brute? Was he upset because his partner had been killed?

Irritable, Laurent glared at him. He felt prickly with nerves and fears. Paranoia lapped at his fingertips. "Did you leave him?" Laurent asked, and then started walking again, pace fast with fear and anger.

He led the way to another chamber, with a vast staircase amidst the bones that led upward. "You can get out that way," he informed Gansey, still too infatuated with him to be satisfied with merely leaving him to die. "Don't come back."