His heart rate's still elevated with anxiety, thudding against Adam's palm. Ronan does a wonderful job of maintaining an air of stone-faced indifference and irreverence, but the turmoil's always raging beneath the surface. There are so many people here, and it would only take one to steal him away.

"It's the weirdest thing, isn't it?" Not weird that a raven boy would achieve fame. Plenty of Aglionby students were famous. But Ronan himself, after so much time in hiding. "I didn't think it'd be like this. I figured the show would get cancelled after two episodes."