Skulduggery – Crow
Anton – Bear
Ghastly – Panda
Dexter – Wolf
Saracen – Weasel
Erskine – Snake
Solomon – Raven
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Chapter 73
Tanith got home barely two days later looking shaky and concerned but declared healthy of anything contagious. She wasn't allowed to do any serious activities, had to sit down any time she felt tired and someone had to be with her at almost all times to make sure she wouldn't faint.
She hadn't told Valkyrie what was making her sick but had promised it wasn't important. Panda was staying with her.
Solomon didn't have any more strange drug-related epiphanies to the colour blue and healed quickly. Quickly enough to go back to his own home at the same time as Tanith, much to Crow's very vocal displeasure. They were all expecting a new family member to be living with them in the next year or so.
Almost all her brothers had gotten drunk when she pointed that out to them.
Finally, there was Fletcher.
He spent much longer in hospital, almost three whole days extra to the other two. On that third day, the one he was released on, Valkyrie had gone to visit him.
He had told her to bugger off. She had left quickly.
.*****.
Going back to work was much easier than she expected, and much more people were there than she thought would be – a heavy sum of Irish sorcerers had been killed during the fighting. But it seemed to be just the non-Sanctuary employees, though their Administrator had once again been killed.
A new man called Tipstaff, that Weasel told her had once been a woman in relation to a story he told her, was Administrator and he had stormed in on his first day and cleared up practically all the confusion and miscommunication and idiocy in the first hour of work.
Even Corrival fell prey to his cleaning up and had been ordered to organise his office immediately so Tipstaff could file his paperwork, and had actually done it too.
Meritorious was incredibly pleased he'd hired the man.
"Cain," a man called from behind her. She turned and saw Detective Bermuda Sickle, an annoying man but only in that he could only talk about his most sickening cases and cats. He was otherwise a bland and boring person. "Where's Skulduggery Pleasant?"
"He's on a call at the moment," she told him – there had been a sighting of Tesseract the day before at a bar. "What do you need?"
He tutted. "I got told to open the damned Sanctuary Puzzle Box and I can't figure out. Tell me when he's done, right, he can have his bloody go."
He went to walk off and Valkyrie glared at his back. "Let me have a go."
He stilled and turned back to her. "You? You're a kid. Look, I know you're all big and glorious with the Dead Men and all, but Puzzle Boxes are not easy things, and this is The Sanctuary one," he stressed. "I've been practising my whole life and I still haven't got the hang of them. This is no ordinary Puzzle Box to play with, it's–"
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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...
