Ghastly rolled his eyes just before answering the phone. "China. What is she doing here?"
"Why didn't she call?" Valkyrie asked, fanning out her own cards, as Ghastly stepped away from the conversation. "It's a three-hour drive. How could she even know we'd be here?"
"It is China's safe house." Skulduggery sat back in his chair with a long sigh. "We may as well see what she wants. I'll admit, I'm curious about what made her drive three hours without so much as a heads up. She isn't that enamoured of me."
Of course, knowing China, the only thing that made her call at all was the misplaced doorway. She'd been hoping to catch them by surprise, off-guard and therefore vulnerable. Why? What on earth could she have been planning to achieve? Not just the looks on their faces, that was for sure. And it wasn't like China to underestimate the power of someone who might be an angel, whether she truly believed the claim or not.
"But this does not mean," Skulduggery directed at Gabe with a good-natured grumble, "that you win this particular argument." He was still internally debating whether or not to get a book on cheating to show the Archangel - and, if he did, whether he was hoping it would deter Gabe from arguments like this or teach him how to cheat better. Honestly, either was an acceptable outcome.
"I'm still confused," Tanith complained, glaring down at her cards like they'd done her some great personal wrong. "You see souls? All the time? Even outside of card games?"
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"Why didn't she call?" Valkyrie asked, fanning out her own cards, as Ghastly stepped away from the conversation. "It's a three-hour drive. How could she even know we'd be here?"
"It is China's safe house." Skulduggery sat back in his chair with a long sigh. "We may as well see what she wants. I'll admit, I'm curious about what made her drive three hours without so much as a heads up. She isn't that enamoured of me."
Of course, knowing China, the only thing that made her call at all was the misplaced doorway. She'd been hoping to catch them by surprise, off-guard and therefore vulnerable. Why? What on earth could she have been planning to achieve? Not just the looks on their faces, that was for sure. And it wasn't like China to underestimate the power of someone who might be an angel, whether she truly believed the claim or not.
"But this does not mean," Skulduggery directed at Gabe with a good-natured grumble, "that you win this particular argument." He was still internally debating whether or not to get a book on cheating to show the Archangel - and, if he did, whether he was hoping it would deter Gabe from arguments like this or teach him how to cheat better. Honestly, either was an acceptable outcome.
"I'm still confused," Tanith complained, glaring down at her cards like they'd done her some great personal wrong. "You see souls? All the time? Even outside of card games?"