Adam's brow furrowed and his cheeks flushed. It surprised him how stung he was by the implication that it wasn't supposed to be him here, bound to the ley line. As if it weren't enough that the ley line had made him increasingly inhuman and unknowable, even the wonders associated with the ley line still found Adam inadequate.

"What do you mean, the sacrifice went wrong?" Adam snapped, a little too loud. "What was supposed to happen?"

A girl. Unless he meant Neeve, which seemed unlikely, he must mean Blue. Finally Adam had something wondrous that belonged to him alone, and as soon as he was through the door the guardian rejected him and asked him to send in his ex-girlfriend.