Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom Of The Wicked - Plot & Excerpts
Skulduggery and Valkyrie sat at the long table in the dining hall, and Lament stood looking at them with his arms crossed. He looked to be around forty, with long fair hair. He had a long nose and sharp, intelligent eyes. He was dressed identically to Kalvin. From the glimpses Valkyrie had snatched of the other sorcerers on the way here, robes and sandals seemed to be the uniform for mountain-dwelling mages.“How did you find us?” were his first words to them.“It wasn’t easy,” Skulduggery said.He looked annoyed. “It was supposed to be impossible. We didn’t go to all this trouble to be ‘hard to find’. We did it to disappear.”“We’d never have come looking for you if it wasn’t for Argeddion,” said Valkyrie. “He’s doing something to ordinary people, giving them magic.”Lament shook his head. “Impossible. No one can transfer magic in any way to anyone who doesn’t already have magic within them.”“For all we know,” said Skulduggery, “these mortals did have magic within them.
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