The truth is, Gansey knows that the supernatural and impossible things he seeks out are best when they remain things. When they can think, when they're sentient beings trying to interact with the wider world, they're too big to fit into a person-sized space and end up getting their Otherness all over the carpet. It's not bad, but it's also not easy.

Warm, affectionate eyes that are seeing Gansey? As miraculous a find as anything else Gansey's stumbled over.

"Oh, I thought my opinion on that was obvious too." The fingers that had just held Iggy's palm pressed to Gansey's pulse reach up and tuck an errant curl behind Iggy's ear.