Skulduggery – Crow
Anton – Bear
Ghastly – Panda
Dexter – Wolf
Saracen – Weasel
Erskine – Snake
Solomon – Raven
Corrival – Pa
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Chapter 89
"I hate this," Valkyrie said from her place of the floor. A heatwave had rolled into Ireland unexpectedly and it was making Valkyrie melt. Which was why she was on the wood floors spread eagle in shorts and a bikini bra. Her family knew about her scars and it was too hot to do anything else - Tanith had seen them a bunch anyway.
The others were better suited to the weather, but Tanith claimed it was just pregnancy that got her on the floor chewing ice and equally melty. She'd even gotten a haircut to help, a chop that left it level with her shoulders, shorter than Valkyrie's now.
"I hate it more. And I'm hungry," Tanith groaned.
"You're always hungry," Valkyrie muttered. She wanted to shuffle out of the way of a beam of light slowly making its way towards her, but she was stuck to the floor by her own sweat. "We need a swimming pool."
"I don't want to go out."
"Get the others to do it."
"They're not here."
The girls groaned.
"If we get naps now, we can go buy ice cream tonight," Tanith said, a little hope in her voice. "We could ride my bike."
"You're not allowed to drive, but I agree with the ice cream," Valkyrie smiled.
"You can drive it."
"That's illegal."
"So?"
Well, put like that... that evening, she and Tanith got into something a little more covering but not much because it was still disgustingly hot and donned their helmets.
Valkyrie drove them out into town for ice cream. She rode for a long time and Tanith didn't seem to mind because she was out of the house away from the men, so Valkyrie took her own time driving around to her favourite ice cream place. It was next to the Pizza Hut she, Nadia, Tanith, Wolf and Fletcher had once gone to, and although she wished she was with Nadia, it was nice to go out at all.
"I love this place," Tanith grinned, taking her helmet off. Putting the keys in her pocket, Valkyrie followed the pregnant lady in. Tanith had worn a crop top – one of Valkyrie's – and some shorts that showed off her middle. She knew Tanith shouldn't be far enough along for her to see, but she could have sworn there was the tiniest little bump on her tummy. Probably all the eating and sitting around she'd been forced to do.
Valkyrie had switched into shorts that were a little longer to hide the thigh scars and a flowy top that covered the other scars. The ankle ones were on show, but she was getting more than comfortable with those ones because no one ever looked that far down. And the one's on her forearms weren't so bad really, and no one seemed to notice them either. They nearly looked like birthmarks, or that's what Valkyrie liked to think if she ever saw someone glancing at her. At worst, it looked like she'd done them to herself and while that didn't thrill her, it was better than looking like she'd been tortured.
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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...
