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Chapter one- Curiosity killed the cat.
Skulduggery Pleasant sat peacefully in his favourite armchair, quietly mediat-
'SKULDUGGERRYYYY!'
Skulduggery jumped; disgruntled that he was awoken from his 'sleep'.
"What is it?" He asked, looking down at Druna who was holding his phone.
"This is ringing. It's your phone."
"Ahh, you'd make a good detective, Druna," Skulduggery said sarcastically.
Druna beamed.
"Really? I was going to be an owl tamer! But now you've mentioned it, I might be a detective!"
"Oh dear…"
Skulduggery took the phone off Druna and walked away to find somewhere to answer it in peace.
"Somehow, Druna, I don't think Skulduggery would take you on as a partner," Valkyrie said, sitting with Flaring and Ghastly on the sofa.
"Ah well, back to owl taming…"
Skulduggery entered a few minuets later, and made an attempt to get everyone's attention.
"Excuse me, everyone!" he called.
No one answered.
"Can I please have everyone's attention!"
Again, nobody was willing to give Skulduggery their attention.
Skulduggery sighed, and Shakra got up on the coffee table.
"Look! Skulduggery's human!" She yelled, pointing to a non-human and slightly bewildered Skulduggery.
Everyone came up short and whipped their heads around to Skulduggery.
"Thank you," Skulduggery said, exasperated.
"You're not human!"
"Well done, Fletcher. How observant of you. Anyway, now I have been able to gain your attention, I have an announcement—"
"You're pregnant?" Druna asked
"No!"
"You're adopting a penguin?" Flaring asked hopefully.
"No! Look, would you all shut-up and listen!"
"Sure thang, sista from anotha mista!"
"…Thank you. As I was saying, my announcement is that we are going to France," when everyone was silent, he continued, "The French sanctuary has called us in. There's been a series of murders committed, in a small village in the Alps, called St. Gervais. The victims, by the looks of things, were just chosen at random. In the wrong place at the wrong time. And they were all mortal, but the murderer, or murderers are sorcerers, and it is becoming exceedingly harder to hide it from the villagers, so we've been called in."
There was a brief silence, broken by Flaring.
"Are we all going?"
"Unfortunately…yes…"
"Oi! What d'ya mean 'unfortunately'?"
"Unfortunately as in they want you three, as well!"
"Woot!" DFS yelled in unison, with a round of high-fives.
"When do we leave?" Valkyrie asked, attempting to bring some sanity back to the conversation.
Skulduggery hesitated.
"Tomorrow…"
"What!"
"I know its short notice but I was curious…"
"Curiosity killed the cat," Flaring said in an attempt at a wise sort of tone, stroking her imaginary beard and smoking a pipe that had bubbles coming out the funnel.
"In…deed…"
"So, we're using Fletcher to get us there?" Valkyrie asked
"Actually, no. They'd like us to take a plane, to give us a briefing on the drive to St. Gervais. And after that, we're on our own, I'm afraid." Skulduggery said.
Valkyrie noticed Fletcher pale at the mention of taking a plane.
"We're staying at-What is on my head?" Skulduggery asked.
Everyone looked at Skulduggery's skull, and burst out laughing.
"An owl," Druna stated, grinning.
"…"
"His name's Cealan" Druna smiled, patting the owls head.
Valkyrie spluttered.
"And why is he on my head?"
"You're a skeleton." Shakra grinned
If Skulduggery was able to look sarcastic, he would've. Instead, he clapped slowly.
"What I mean is, he wants to steal you."
Skulduggery instantly stopped clapping.
"You're making it sound like the owl's a body snatcher."
Druna erupted into horribly forced and nervous laughter.
"Ha! No, of course not…"
DFS shared a look and tried not to act shifty.
"Well,' Valkyrie sighed, standing up, "We better get packing."