Skulduggery Pleasant, Books 1-3 by Derek Landy

Author:Derek Landy [Derek Landy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2013-09-24T00:00:00+00:00

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UNDER THE GROUND

alkyrie gasped for breath as she plunged down into the darkness. The earth shifted around her. It scraped into her back and crumbled at her feet. Dirt flew into her eyes and the sound of a rockslide roared in her ears. She clung on to Sanguine as they moved.

“Scared?” he said in her ear. “What if I were to just… let go?”

He was right in front of her – she could feel his breath on her cheek – but she couldn’t see him. It was impossibly dark, whatever tunnel they were making filling up above them as they moved. Her gut twisted as real, raw terror spread through her.

“I’ll burn you,” she said, but the sound of rockslide drowned out her small voice. “I’ll burn you!” she shouted. She heard him laugh.

“You burn me enough you might kill me and then what would you do? You’d be stuck here, buried alive under the ground with only my corpse for comfort.”

They slowed, the rockslide lessened, and they came to a stop. Valkyrie was shaking. Sweat drenched her. Panic caught at her throat.

“I can see you, you know,” he said. “My eyes were taken, but my sight remains. And here, in the dark? I can see best of all. I can see the fear on your face. You can’t hide it from me. So here’s what’s gonna happen. I’m gonna put some dainty li’l shackles on those wrists of yours and then we’re gonna go pay a visit to Baron Vengeous. That sound like a nice way to spend the rest of your life?”

Valkyrie tasted dirt in her mouth, but didn’t answer. It was too dark. She could feel the rocks all around her. Despite her loathing, she realised she was clinging tightly to Sanguine, terrified he was going to let her go and leave her here. She felt him move, heard the earth shift, and felt something cold and metal close around her wrists.

“Oh, one other thing,” he said. “My blade. Where is it?”

“Coat pocket,” she whispered.

His hand dipped into the pocket, removing the straight razor.

“So good to have it back. It’s like a part of me, y’know? Like a little piece of my soul…”

He could see in the dark, so she made sure he could see the contempt on her face. “Is there somewhere we need to go or are you going to keep us down here and bore me to death?”

He laughed, the rock shifted and they moved again, fast. She tried to work out how Sanguine did it, but it was as if the ground just parted for him then closed up when he’d passed. It was impossible to tell what direction they were going or even if they were headed up or down, and then suddenly the earth gave way and their momentum carried them through into the fresh air.

The moon, heavy and low in the dark sky. Trees and hedges and grass. Valkyrie fell to her knees, spitting dirt and sucking in air. The

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