[Gansey's missed Noah too, honestly. He'd only just gotten him back before he's ended up here, so the feeling still lingers; raw and fond. He'd really rather neither of them were tied up, but there's almost certainly worse options. He's starting to get the sense that in this place there are always worse options.]

Yeah, I'm figuring that out. Maybe a bit slowly, I guess.

[A vague acknowledgement of the fact of how little time this place gives for adjustment. That Gansey's a little bit more lost than he chooses to admit to, but he murmurs a slight agreement at the question. If nothing else it's easier to talk about Adam than just about anything else going on right now.]

A little bit, yeah. This place is a mess. [They'd gone over an assortment of different things, and there had been a few different aspects of the city that he'd explained. None of which are the things that Gansey points out. Instead there's a touch of a laugh and his best attempt at a shake of his head.] Adam's older than I am.

[It was this strange, impossible thing that felt wrong in a way that he couldn't articulate. Adam was in college and he was still in Aglionby, it was more than just a handful of months, it was- pieces of life he didn't have yet.]