"Are you sure she'll be able to handle it?" Ghastly asked him over the whirring of his sewing machine.
He looked down on her as she slept, somehow her head had ended up nestled in his lap. Her fingers had snaked out and she was now clinging onto his jacket as she dreamed.
Soon, Valkyrie Cain would be fighting the Dark Gods themselves but right now, Stephenie Edgly was snoozing peacefully in Skulduggery Pleasant's arms.
Inspired by a line in The Faceless Ones.