A/N: Haven't updated in a while, sooooooorry!

New update :)

Enjoy!

Btw. I just wanna say. I get the bus from the Depot in Drogheda EVERY MORNING. People who've read Mortal Coil will get it ;)

Chapter six

China Sorrows was a remarkable woman. She'd been told this through the years, over and over again.

But what they never said was, you're a brilliant woman.

She knew what that was meant to mean. She was cold and empty to the core. She understood this, she had done things she's ashamed of. She was willing to accept this.

And she was about to enter into another one of

China entered a little coffee shop off O' Connel street in Dublin. It was out of the way and nobody was in. The way she liked it.

Except one man, she noticed. A man with sandy blue hair and black sunglasses. China sighed.

Walking towards the table of grinning idiot, she took a note from her pocket and threw it onto the table in front of him.

"So you're responsible for dragging me out in the middle of winter?" China shot, raising one eyebrow.

"I am darlin', I've a, what do they call it, proposition for you." He replied leaning back and gesturing for China to sit down.

To show her distaste for this particular coffee partner, she sat down slowly and deliberately.

"And that is?" She questioned.

"It regards Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain."

China's lips curled up in a smile.

"Go on."

A/N: Okaaay just a quick chapter to see if people still actually read this...

Do they? Well. I'll know by the feedback anyways..

Please revieeew and lemme know people!

Blaaah.