"Let's get drunk!"
"Not sure of that's a good idea."
"Oh, of course it is, I came up with it!"
"You and your ego"
"I learnt it from you."
"I'm a bad influence on you, then."
"Nah."
Skulduggery looked up from the table. Him and Valkyrie were at the Sanctuary, apparently grounded because they were causing to much trouble. "Where are we gonna get the alcohol from anyway?"
"I'm sure I could find some locked away in this room somewhere."
Skulduggery put his head back on the table, black hair flying about. "You not very good at looking for things though."
"Hey!"
"Don't get up on me. Sometimes the truth hurts."
Valkyrie opened her mouth and raised a finger, "you're a bitch."
"Okay."
Valkyrie pulled out her phone, "I could call Tanith."
"Ghastly."
"What about him?"
"Think about it Valkyrie. They've been going out for the past hundred years. He would've told her."
"Yeah, but I'm her best friend. So she'll get me out, we'll ditch you and go get drunk. You're the one that turned it into a big scene anyway," she grumbled.
Skulduggery raised his head again, and arched a delicate eyebrow and Valkyrie laughed. "What?"
"Your eyebrows are very feminine, good sir."
"Are you mocking me again?"
Valkyrie laughed harder and it wasn't exactly how a woman of her age should laugh. She was snorting, hiccuping and occasionally sounded like a dying crow. Skulduggery banged his fist against the table.
"Damn it Cain! This is what got us in here in the first place, you dumbass!"
Valkyrie froze, "Gordon!"
Skulduggery slumped and sighed, "shit."
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"Haha! Tan, I knew I could count on you."
"Since when did you call me Tan?"
"Since right now."
"Yeah, well I don't like it. Call me it again, Val, and I'll lock you back in the room. Except with Ghastly."
Valkyrie bowed her head, and grinned before running the rest of the way to Tan's bike.