- Gansey has seen the same vision, but he breaks himself away from it in order to go check on Adam now that the stampede is over. What he sees shocks him: Adam is in the middle of the pentagram unharmed, but Whelk is dead; he's been trampled.
- When Gansey asks Adam why he's holding the gun, Adam admits that he used it to keep Whelk from going into the pentagram. He let him get trampled to death because it was what he deserved—he was the one who murdered their friend Noah, after all.
- Gansey says that they have to call the police, but Adam refuses. Whelk left Noah out in the woods to rot, so he should receive the same exact treatment. It's only fair.
- As they turn to leave, though, they hear a burst of Latin from the trees. They tell Gansey that they know what he's looking for. There are rumors of a king buried along the spirit road.