Dear You:

Dear Valkyrie,

I'm sorry. I wish I could have helped. I suppose that I should have seen it coming. We all knew. Tanith, Ghastly, Fletcher. We all saw the signs and ignored them. I wish we hadn't. If you could see me now, you would be so disappointed. The great Skulduggery Pleasant, reduced to this. But hey. You're not here. There are times though, that you are still here with me. I will here your voice in my house one night and search until the others come. I often have visions of you. They always disappear though. Valkyrie, if you really are gone, stay gone. Please. I cannot ask anything else of you. I already asked you to do the impossible. And you did. You have managed the impossible so many times. And then you didn't. I tried so hard to save you. Truly. But my hardest just wasn't enough. I will make it up to you though. Somehow. I once said that I will disappoint you, but you will never disappoint me. And I kept my word. There was one thing I wanted to tell you before you died. I love you Valkyrie. And I'm sorry.

Yours truly,

Skulduggery Pleasant