"Thank you." China took advantage of the outdated but welcome chivalry and led the way out of the room, walking unintentionally quickly to get out from under Solomon's scrutinising stare.
It was unnerving, that stare. If ever China had scoffed at the hyperbole of 'looking through into someone's soul,' she mentally took it back. It was the first idea her mind went to when faced with that gaze, even if she hadn't known about Solomon's newfound abilities. His stare was that intense, that knowing, that piercing. The way he seemed to be regarding not her, but something unknowable inside of her.
Given how little even China understood about her own mind and soul these days, she wasn't happy with the trespass. Every fiber of her being rebelled against it. But since she couldn't very well ask Solomon to simply stop being blind, China was reduced to leaving the room as quickly, yet gracefully, as she could.
She passed the first storage-room on the left without pausing. "One problem at a time," she explained briefly without turning around. What was it Corrival had called the angel statues...? "The Host can wait. Bliss has already spent a year trapped. Old life over new life, isn't that how the good guys do it?"
That was also ironic, considering Skulduggery's previous occupation during the war. China wondered if Vex already knew about that. She wouldn't have thought he'd be so cheerful, but then, the Dead Men were always full of surprises.
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It was unnerving, that stare. If ever China had scoffed at the hyperbole of 'looking through into someone's soul,' she mentally took it back. It was the first idea her mind went to when faced with that gaze, even if she hadn't known about Solomon's newfound abilities. His stare was that intense, that knowing, that piercing. The way he seemed to be regarding not her, but something unknowable inside of her.
Given how little even China understood about her own mind and soul these days, she wasn't happy with the trespass. Every fiber of her being rebelled against it. But since she couldn't very well ask Solomon to simply stop being blind, China was reduced to leaving the room as quickly, yet gracefully, as she could.
She passed the first storage-room on the left without pausing. "One problem at a time," she explained briefly without turning around. What was it Corrival had called the angel statues...? "The Host can wait. Bliss has already spent a year trapped. Old life over new life, isn't that how the good guys do it?"
That was also ironic, considering Skulduggery's previous occupation during the war. China wondered if Vex already knew about that. She wouldn't have thought he'd be so cheerful, but then, the Dead Men were always full of surprises.