Skulduggery – Crow
Anton – Bear
Ghastly – Panda
Dexter – Wolf
Saracen – Weasel
Erskine – Snake
Solomon – Raven
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Chapter 79
She woke in a panic to the sound of someone knocking on her door, rushed out of bed and wrapped her robe around her shoulders to open the damn door.
Raven was there.
"Good morning Valkyrie," he said pleasantly, stepping into the room. "I see you've made the room your own."
She kicked the pile of dirty washing under her desk and closed the door. "It's fine. What are you doing here? You nearly gave me a heart attack."
"I'm very sorry," he said with a smile. "I am here to begin your morning tuition."
"Morning tuition?" She asked. "What's that?"
"It is the private tutoring an apprentice receives every morning and Sunday when the other students have free time. You will want to get dressed for the day now for our activities," he told her. "I did warn you about your busy schedule."
She sighed and gathered her clothes together, getting a look at the clock on her time as she did and gasped in shock. "Solomon Wreath, it is five in the bloody morning!"
"I know."
"This is not an okay time to wake me up," she glared.
"Temple students are more adjusted than you to our times," he said with a slight frown of consideration. "Students must wake at five each morning, and they get themselves dressed and ready for the day. They then self-study until seven, when they go to the Dining Hall for breakfast at a quarter past seven. Then they have a dedicated time slot for library studies. This is how students are able to complete at least one book a day, though I know your class has a lot of high achievers in it. It is the seventh best class we have had since this particular Temple was built in fourteen-seventy-nine."
"Whoopie," she muttered. "Turn around."
He did and she quickly got herself ready – thankfully remembering deodorant at the very last moment – and Raven continued to lecture her. "After morning library study, students begin morning class at nine, which follows until quarter to eleven, a short break, and next class. That leads to lunch, a further class, a break, and another class. That last class leaves us at quarter to five, where students have a half hour break and then dinner, and then the library time once more before students have free time to do as they wish until morning. We did go through this several times."
"I know," she sighed. "Do you know why no one's talking to me?"
"I did notice the other students were being particularly quiet yesterday."
"Well, they're ignoring me. And another student, Militsa, the one from Scotland? She says she's been ignored since she came here eight years ago. She doesn't have a single friend," Valkyrie told him and she searched through her drawer for where she'd dumped her socks. "I sort of thought everyone was going to either hate me or be super interested in the outside world. Literally no one cares and it's so frustrating."
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Skulduggery Pleasant: Raising Cain
Fanfic(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...
