[Adam already knows his answer is no, but he considers it for Ronan's sake. His hand slides a little higher, fingers combing through Ronan's hair. Because Ronan wants it, Adam lets himself consider what it would really mean.]

I'd be the Greywaren.

[He breathes out at that, not quite a whistle. Individually, they're both powerful. Together, they can literally rewrite reality. It's godlike power.]

Noah and Gansey would be furious.

[He can already anticipate Ronan's answer on that--they'd get over it--and maybe they would. Ronan would still be present, alive, unharmed, and happier than he'd ever been or ever could be. For that alone, Adam expects that Gansey and Noah would respect Ronan's choice, eventually. It's Adam who doesn't intend to allow it.]

They might be happy for you, eventually, but they'd never forgive me for taking you away.

I'd miss the sex. The warmth of having a physical body to love. Being able to tangle up with you like this. I know it's the opposite for you, but sex with you is the closest I've ever felt to something like holiness. Having you inside my veins feels like a drug. An addiction, where eventually I'd lose myself, lose control, and get myself killed for it.

It'd mean that you and I would be united on the deepest possible level, sharing every thought, and yet... I can't help but think... it would be lonely, somehow. It would make me into something that could no longer love, because I would be complete unto myself, and inhuman, and truly, infinitely, unknowable.