The relief that washed through Valkyrie after Gabe's assurance made her knees shake, but she forced herself to keep walking upright. Gabe had strained himself again - and Valkyrie impatiently fought back the fresh surge of guilt that thought brought with it - so it wasn't like there would be anyone to help her if she stumbled. And she wouldn't stumble. For now, until they ran into Skulduggery again, Valkyrie would be the strong one.
"Yep," she answered the security guards with an agreeable nod. "But they're really giant teddy bears on the inside." She paused, remembering the teddy bear gift Solomon got from God, and something about that nearly made her laugh. "Well, one of them is. I actually don't know much about the other one. So yeah, he's scary. The thing is, we're not from the Garda, but we are expected. You can ask them. You might make them even more angry, though. It's probably easiest just to let us through."
It was what Skulduggery did sometimes, talking quickly and smoothly in a way that sounded like it made perfect sense, until you thought about it just a little harder. So putting people on edge right away with that approach worked wonders in making them too nervous to think a little harder about anything. Granted, Skulduggery was still better at it than Valkyrie was, but she still figured she was good enough for this.
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The relief that washed through Valkyrie after Gabe's assurance made her knees shake, but she forced herself to keep walking upright. Gabe had strained himself again - and Valkyrie impatiently fought back the fresh surge of guilt that thought brought with it - so it wasn't like there would be anyone to help her if she stumbled. And she wouldn't stumble. For now, until they ran into Skulduggery again, Valkyrie would be the strong one.
"Yep," she answered the security guards with an agreeable nod. "But they're really giant teddy bears on the inside." She paused, remembering the teddy bear gift Solomon got from God, and something about that nearly made her laugh. "Well, one of them is. I actually don't know much about the other one. So yeah, he's scary. The thing is, we're not from the Garda, but we are expected. You can ask them. You might make them even more angry, though. It's probably easiest just to let us through."
It was what Skulduggery did sometimes, talking quickly and smoothly in a way that sounded like it made perfect sense, until you thought about it just a little harder. So putting people on edge right away with that approach worked wonders in making them too nervous to think a little harder about anything. Granted, Skulduggery was still better at it than Valkyrie was, but she still figured she was good enough for this.