Skulduggery Pleasant: Raising Cain

Chapter 104 - The Visions

Skulduggery – Crow

Anton – Bear

Ghastly – Panda

Dexter – Wolf

Saracen – Weasel

Erskine – Snake

Solomon – Raven

Corrival – Pa

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Chapter 104

Valkyrie and the Idiots went to a fast food restaurant for lunch, though it was closer to dinner, and ordered three times what the average person could usually consume, each, and also got ice creams to go on their way out.

They had barely sat back in the car when Wolf's phone went off and he had to search his thirty pockets for the device. He grabbed it out of one with a victorious grin. "Dexter," he said. Someone spoke on the other side and his eyes widened. "Of course, we'll be there soon. Thank you. Bye."

"Who was that?" Valkyrie asked.

"Cassandra. Do you know who that is?" He asked. She shook her head. "She's a Sensitive, her powers are unrivalled. She said she's Seen something we need to see so we're going there now."

"Does she have food?" Snake asked from the back, a mouthful of ice cream.

"Ravel, we aren't there, how am I meant to know?" Wolf asked as he pulled into traffic.

They finished their ice creams and Valkyrie pulled her phone out for the drive. She had a text from Nadia and quickly read it.

'Any progress, my mega strong princess?'

'Please don't make variations. And kind of. We searched the place and found a few bits, we're going to the Sanctuary but now a sensitive wants to talk.'

'What about?'

'I don't know, we're going there now. Hopefully information so we can get this done and I can see you again.'

'Not to see your family whole and together? ;)'

'Not really.' She typed, and send after that, 'I want Raven back but when we get Crow I'm locking him out the house security. That's my plan.'

'It's good revenge,' she said. 'But isn't he in control?'

'Not if I take over, which I can. Who's going to stop me? I was right, even he will have to admit that. But I don't want to talk about that. How are you?'

'Today was okay. Mum went out with friends and Dad's in Northern Ireland for work for a few days, so I ransacked the house of more food, watched telly, had a bath. It was pretty good. I got out my old baby shoes for Tanith too.'

'Guess you'll have to come visit me?' Valkyrie wrote before tagging on a question mark.

'I will, don't worry. I want to see your new kitchen.'

Valkyrie smiled at her phone and spoke with Nadia silently for the two and a half hours it took to get them to Cassandra's house. When she got there her neck was aching from looking down so much, but she was far happier, as if she'd been rejuvenated. She said goodbye to Nadia, got out the car and stretched before following her brothers to the house.

Right as they got to the little, paved path going up to the house, the door was opened by a lady with grey hair, pale skin with many lines, wearing a grey dress. Behind that Valkyrie could see a pretty woman, and her eyes were happy and worried at once.