[And here Adam had thought he'd been making a clever joke. Part of him thought he should have known that someone who ate nightmares needed to eat them to survive, but this was also new territory for him.]

The ley line in Cambridge isn't as strong as it could be.

[It felt like a confession, like a secret, but it was the truth. It was a fact. The line was sleepy but it could be better. They could all be better. Sometimes, he'd thought about trying to strengthen that line like he had Henrietta's, but he thought it would be more complicated than arranging stones and digging up rose bushes.]

Oh.

[His eyebrows raised but not in a bad way. People who could share their love with more than one person- he wondered if he had that much love to give, himself. If he was capable of it. He wanted to believe he was, that the love within him was a font instead of a well. He only had eyes for Ronan, so he'd thought, and yet- he couldn't help but feel protective of this boy. He was sweet and attractive and it was such a relief, in a way, to find someone Adam could talk to about these sort of things.]

I'm sorry. Love can be terrifying. It's not always easy to navigate.

[So, he wasn't going to judge Elijah for fumbling things.

On the other hand-]

Virginia isn't bad.