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"It could take days to find Harmony in those tunnels."

"We don't even know that."

"It would be a miracle if we were to just stumble across Harmony."

"We could split up again."

"No, they might want us to do that."

"Yeah. We need to stick together. We'll be harder to find because we're in one group and it's also for safety."

"Sure. Safety. That isn't really our first priority, Harmony is."

"But if we're all captured or injured, no one can save Harmony."

"Harmony's relying on us."

"Isn't there another way?"

"It would be easier to split-."

"We're not splitting up!"

Valkyrie groaned. She wanted to bang her head on the wall…..so badly. No one was taking charge. They all had ideas but no one was sorting through them. It would be a lot easier if they knew where Harmony was or knew if there were any rooms in the sewers where she could be being held. A map would help right about now.

Valkyrie blinked. How could she have forgotten? She had blueprints of the school. Tanith, Merit, Harmony and herself had found them in their art room. They were still there so she would need to go get them.

She slowly shuffled away from the group. Everyone was back in one big group and they were all back in her dorm.

Opening the front door, she checked outside for a teacher. When she was sure there wasn't one, she snuck out and closed the door behind her quietly. She checked for any teachers again before heading off to The Art room.

She probably should have got used to the quietness of the corridors by now with all the sneaking she has been doing lately but the silence still put her on edge. At any moment a teacher could come round the corner and—

"Where are you going?"

Valkyrie froze and turned slowly to look behind her. Had a teacher caught her? Was she not going to be able to get the blueprints?

She turned all the way around and sighed in relief. "Skull. I thought you were a teacher."

Skulduggery stood behind her and tilted his head in amusement. "That's nice of you. Though, I would make a splendid teacher if I do say so myself."

Valkyrie smiled slightly and carried on walking to The Art room.

"I'm going to get blueprints for the school. They should have the sewer layouts on them." Valkyrie explained as they found the stairs that lead down to the old part of the school.

"Ah," Skulduggery said, "The ones you found in that room you have turned into an art room."

"How did you-?"

"I have my ways," Skulduggery said mysteriously. Valkyrie looked at him out the corner of her eye as they turned another corner. He seemed to be relaxed as normal but she could see a slight tenseness that isn't usually there. She could see his skull slightly moving to the side every so often as if he was looking behind him for anyone following them.

"Is the door normally left open?"

Valkyrie stopped staring at Skulduggery and looked in front of them. The door to The Art room was open slightly and she could hear someone, or a group of people, inside. Clicking her fingers she summoned a flame to her hand and found Skulduggery had done the same.

They both walked slowly to the door. Skulduggery reached out a gloved hand and opened the door. The things inside stopped what they were doing at stared at the pair.

Valkyrie stared back. Inside the room were a group of paper people. Their skin was black and their eye were hollow. Valkyrie looked around The Art room and found it was half way through being ransacked. Much of the pots of paints they had stored were opened and thrown across the room. All different colours decorated the floor and walls. Some of the cabinets they had kept were dented while others were empty, their draws having been taken out.

"What are they?" Valkyrie asked. The paper people stared at them but as soon as she spoke it was as if it turned on a switch within them. They charged.

Skulduggery was the first to move out of the pair and quickly threw the fireball in his hand. It hit one of the paper people at the front and set it alight. The paper person stepped back and bumped into some of the others and set them alight as well.

Valkyrie followed Skulduggery's lead and threw her fireball at one that hadn't caught on fire yet. It was quickly left as ashes. It took a few more fireballs each before all the paper people were turned into ashes.

Valkyrie looked to Skulduggery who was watching the last of the flames to die out. Once it had extinguished Skulduggery turned to look at her.

"They are called Hollow men. A paper-like skin filled with gases. Flammable gases." Skulduggery explained. "They are easily made and since they are so cheap to be created they can be made in big groups."

Valkyrie nodded. "It looks like someone knew we were coming to get the blueprints."

"Yes," Skulduggery agreed, "I believe they did. Hollow men are usually Serpine's style." Skulduggery lifted one of the cabinets up so it was standing again. "Did they find the blueprints?"

Valkyrie smirked. "No. They were only searching in cabinets and things in the room. I hid them a bit better than that."

Valkyrie knelt down at the edge of the room. Skulduggery watched what she was doing. She ran her hand across the edge of the floor, where the wall meets the floor, and something clicked when she went over a certain part. On the opposite side of the room a floorboard lifted up slightly.

Skulduggery pulled the floorboard up and reached inside. He pulled out a roll of blue paper. Valkyrie watched him unravel it and smiled when he nodded. They were the blueprints. Skulduggery put the floorboard back in its place and pushed down slightly until there was click.

Valkyrie went and knelt beside Skulduggery as he lay the blueprints, spread out, on the floor. They both looked over them before they found what they were looking for.

"It looks like there is only one room in the sewers." Skulduggery concluded.

"That's where she'll be then." Valkyrie said. She picked up the other blueprints and wrapped them up while Skulduggery kept a hold of the sewer blueprints. "What's the closest grid that we can go down?" Valkyrie had learnt that each grid around the school had a number on it and she could remember where some of them were.

"15."

"That's behind the library."

"I'll text Ghastly to get everyone to meet us there then."

Valkyrie nodded. "What time is it?"

"3:26pm."

"We've got around 8 hours and 30 minutes left."

Skulduggery put a comforting hand on Val's shoulder. "We can do it."

Valkyrie smiled and nodded. "Let's do it then."