Skulduggery – Crow
Anton – Bear
Ghastly – Panda
Dexter – Wolf
Saracen – Weasel
Erskine – Snake
Solomon – Raven
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Chapter 38
"Valkyrie?" Fletcher asked.
Valkyrie sighed and looked over at him. "What do you need?"
He glanced at the floor and back to her. "I just wanted to say I'm sorry. For teleporting you somewhere different to what I said, and for keep asking you out and saying stuff when you said not to."
She smiled at him, relieved he wasn't trying to annoy her again. "Thank you. I appreciate that."
He smiled back lightly. "I didn't mean to upset you. I was talking to Saracen last night – he said that I might have scared or upset you doing that. I mean, I don't think you were scared, nothing seems to scare you, but I sort of saw that you could have been." He shrugged embarrassedly. "I'm just sorry. I wasn't thinking it through."
Valkyrie put her book down and smiled at him properly. "And this has nothing to do with the shouts and screams I heard yesterday?"
"Err," he laughed nervously. "You heard that?"
"Yep. So did most of Asia."
"Oh. Err, well, Dexter told me to tell Skulduggery what I did. Since he's in charge of me or whatever now."
"Oh. I didn't know he was home last night."
"Um, yeah, that's what I was asked to come over here to tell you. Skulduggery wants to see you downstairs."
"Oh," Valkyrie said, taking a deep breath. Taking Tanith's phone, she sent a quick text to Nadia explaining what she was doing and hid it under the pillow. "Where is he?"
Valkyrie was sent to the dining room where everyone but Fletcher and herself was sat. Fletcher wasn't invited, but Valkyrie took her usual seat.
"Hi," she said, looking around the faces. They were all serious. Finally, she looked up at Crow. In front of him was her phone but she avoided looking at it. "What's happening?"
He cleared his throat. "Valkyrie, we had a talk last night."
"I might have heard some of that."
"And this morning we resumed. Our family have asked–" Valkyrie noticed Tanith smile a little at the casual inclusion of herself in their family "–that I lift your punishment. As it is, you have done roughly two months punishment of the four I gave you. I do know you've been using the house phone as well as Tanith's. I also know you have left the property on one visit to Nadia. And that you have been watching television in the day and evening. But, despite the fact you were left with relatively little supervision and what you were left with was more immature than yourself–"
"Hey!" Weasel frowned at him.
"Despite that, you have acted responsibly and better than I have."
Valkyrie nodded. She wasn't going to pretend it wasn't true.
"You're academic learning, which I thought was going to the wayside, has gotten so much better in some subjects you are up to a year ahead of the material you would be doing in regular school. Although you have left your dance and swimming clubs, you have kept up with your dance and all other physical training despite having no reason to do it. You have helped around the house. You have been gracious. You have been almost entirely obedient to your punishment. I really expected you to be out the doors immediately. You proved me wrong."
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Skulduggery Pleasant: Raising Cain
Fanfiction(This story is written as a fanfiction, but can be read as a story without having read any of the books.) Valkyrie Cain, the adoptive daughter of the Dead Men, has had a life full of love and magic. But as she gets older, times become scarier and sh...
