China didn't have to ask. She'd already known, really. She just hadn't wanted to believe it.
It was a naive viewpoint she generally looked down upon, but like so many others before her, China's judgement tended to grow cloudy when it grew personal. That was why she very rarely let things grow personal. Business transactions were so easy to keep neutral. Relationships, platonic or otherwise, were... not.
She had to wonder, now. Had Skulduggery been so adamant about being polite with her for his own sake, or because some part of him wanted to reassure China that he wasn't seeking revenge?
She couldn't pretend to understand this strange world Skulduggery and Solomon had both found themselves in, and to be brutally honest with herself, she didn't want to understand, either. From Solomon's tone, it appeared she wasn't the only one. China sat back and took a thoughtful sip of her water, absentmindedly staring out at Dublin through her large window.
Well, since she'd already asked. "And the armour? How did you manage to fend that off?" It was easy enough to guess that an angel had something to do with deactivating it completely, but Solomon still had to hold it off for a bit, and China had never known anyone successfully able to do that before. Well, no one who lived, anyway.
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It was a naive viewpoint she generally looked down upon, but like so many others before her, China's judgement tended to grow cloudy when it grew personal. That was why she very rarely let things grow personal. Business transactions were so easy to keep neutral. Relationships, platonic or otherwise, were... not.
She had to wonder, now. Had Skulduggery been so adamant about being polite with her for his own sake, or because some part of him wanted to reassure China that he wasn't seeking revenge?
She couldn't pretend to understand this strange world Skulduggery and Solomon had both found themselves in, and to be brutally honest with herself, she didn't want to understand, either. From Solomon's tone, it appeared she wasn't the only one. China sat back and took a thoughtful sip of her water, absentmindedly staring out at Dublin through her large window.
Well, since she'd already asked. "And the armour? How did you manage to fend that off?" It was easy enough to guess that an angel had something to do with deactivating it completely, but Solomon still had to hold it off for a bit, and China had never known anyone successfully able to do that before. Well, no one who lived, anyway.