Gordons P.O.V:
I stared at the blond woman in front of me and she stared back at me. "no, I'm not Valkyrie" she said finally. Then she bit her tong like she wanted to say more. Her throat seemed dry and on second glance she appeared quite tired. "Hello...Gordon? She questioned obviously not done "But you're dead? She looked afraid. Of CORSE she was worried, poor woman didn't know."I'm an eco stone OF Gordon Edgly -Who are you and do you know were my niece?" "Valkyrie is-" "Yes!" I said enthusiasm leaping into my voice. I really wanted to see Valkyrie. "She hasn't visited in ages, she-" "Valkyrie is missing Gordon" That stuck in my throat. All of my excitement creeping away like tiny ninjas. All I could do was repeat her with a dull voice I didn't recognize "Missing?". She took a deep breath and with out notice I felt like I was intruding. "We don't know who has her, She's been missing for months."right" I mumbled but I couldn't here a single coherent word. My God. Doubts came into my head like kids and a playground, was Stephanie okay? She was staring at me strangely. My god, was Stephanie okay? My Stephanie... "Gordon." My eyes snapped up in an instant. I realized too slowly when she took a step back. "So..." I began, trying to act as casually as I could. "Who the hell are you? Not a good move. Stupid Gordon, seriously! She just smiled though "I'm you're biggest fan, Tanith Low" Laughing despite my situation I made a side note to check my sanity, all said and done. "One of my stories was based on you acutely...yes, a swordsman" "well..." she corrected me "swords-woman but yes." I rolled my eyes enjoying the quip "is there a big difference, swordsm-i-n" "of corse, we dress better" "Tighter" I muttered just under my breath. She looked as though she hadn't herd me and I assumed I wouldn't get an answer but I did. She didn't even look at me when she said, "Same thing. It only took a second before we slipped into a silence, not an awkward one. Slightly uncomfortable but it felt like being in a hospital ward with a cancer patient. You were useless there and the doctors couldn't do a lot to help ether. I had to ask the obvious question, some questions bugged you but this one practically put on a tutu and sang to me. "How well did you know Stephanie? "Stephanie? Ah shoot! "Oh, sorry. Valkyrie" She took a moment to let the information slip away into the less relevant part of her brain and then smiled sadly. "practically sisters, she was probably more mature than me but I had more life experience" What would you say. I was glad Valkyrie had good friends and I'd herd a lot about tanith. Given, it was often hard to tell what were rumors and what was the truth I knew what she had done though. She carried on "best friends, Gordon I love you'r niece. She was...amazing...just...amazing" The blond fencer looked about to break down. She took a deep breath like she was counting to five and changed the subject abruptly. "So I take it Valkyrie already knew about you then." "yes, she found out years ago. When she was thirteen, she was doing some research. She broke the news to me about Gordon's death, you see. I wasn't made for comforting his family after he died. I was used as a kind of writing aid for Gordon. You know, who better than himself. Someone who knew what he knew, we had some quite intense and philosophical conversations actually" She almost laughed. "I can imagine that" "yes well..." I spoke clearing my throat. "She wanted to tell you guys but I wouldn't let her, I almost wanted her to have now." "We can" she declared sounding quite optimistic. "really" I tried not to sound nervous about the idea. "yea, Skulduggery, Ghastly and Eskin are all downstairs" "Ravel? "yes" I hadn't seen ravel in years. Well, no 'I' hadn't seen anyone but Gordon hadn't see-no I am Gordon. No...anyway this was it. Now or never, maybe the later. No. This was it I told myself and tried to remember what Valkyrie had said. Its not what I've been reduced to its another forum of myself. Left behind to those who need me and to those I need. Rather philosophical really. She could be very deep and thoughtful when she wasn't joking or insulting people. "Yes" I replied with too much pride in my voice. "Tanith, go and explain it to them then bring them up here." She disappeared and I herd light footsteps down the stares. She explained and I contemplated wether or not I did the best thing. I hoped so anyway, whats done is done. Ghastly and Eskin were first followed by Tanith and Skulduggery who, for his part was looking the least surprised. Admittedly though it was hard to compete with Eskin's gold fish impression and Ghastly acting like some kind of Meakat...well...today was going to be...lovely. Wasn't it? One question lingered on everyones minds though. Were was Valkyrie? Please be okay, please be at least relatively unharmed. Please be okay. Did I see something out the window, no nothing. Just rain. When will it stop raining.
So here it is, what do you think. To be honest I've found it a little more dull. I promise it'll get better. Next time It'll be Val's P.O.V but it needed more. Anyway Hope you guys enjoyed it. I have a couple more planned so keep you're eyes peeled.
-Satire