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  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
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  114. Also by Derek Landy
  115. About the Publisher

They flew up, out of the chasm, and through the tunnel. Their feet touched down at a run and they kept running up the stairs, and into the cellar, and the floor closed up behind them and Valkyrie led the way up into Gordon’s house. She ran into the living room, spun, her hair wild and her eyes wilder.

“Did you see that? Did you see that?” She couldn’t help it – an excited laugh burst from her lips. “That was a dragon! A dragon!”

Skulduggery shook his head. “A dragon.”

“There be dragons!” Valkyrie yelled, spinning in a circle before collapsing on to the couch. Immediately, she was up again, bounding to her feet like she was on a spring. “This is amazing! That is fantastic! It was huge! It was massive! What if it gets free? Do you think it’ll get free? Do you think I could ride it?”

Skulduggery fixed his tie and buttoned his jacket. “I’m sorry?”

“Ride it. Put a saddle on it and ride it. Wouldn’t that be cool? Wouldn’t that be the best thing to ever happen ever in the world?”

“Probably not, all things considered.”

“Don’t you want me to ride a dragon?”

“It would eat you,” said Skulduggery.

“Not necessarily. I could make friends with it. It could be my pet. Or I could be its pet, or whatever. Did you know there were dragons? Did you know there were dragons and you kept it from me?”

“I didn’t know. I thought … I didn’t think they even existed. They’re in stories, in legends, and we have Dragon Eye jewels and dragon thread and dragon this and that, but no one ever seriously thought these things came from actual dragons. That would have been … ridiculous.”

Valkyrie stopped her twirling, and the smile faded. “I wish Gordon were around. He’d have loved this.”

The house was quiet.

She pulled the tranq gun from her waistband. “Here.”

“Ah,” he said, “thank you. And the other?”

“I kind of lost it.”

“You lost it?”

“Kind of,” said Valkyrie.

“They’re a set of two.”

“Now it’s a set of one.”

“That’s not really a set, though.”

“I’m really sorry.”

“That’s OK,” he said tenderly. “You’ve been through a lot.”

She nodded. Moments passed. Her head felt heavy. So did her heart. Then she thought about the dragon and her heart lifted. She spun. “Do you think it’ll try to escape or will it go back down into the pit?”

“I don’t know,” Skulduggery said. “I know absolutely nothing about dragons. I suppose there’s no reason to think it’s going to find a way out now, if it hasn’t before. We woke it from its slumber. Hopefully, it’ll go back to sleep.”

Valkyrie grinned. “Dragons.”

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Image Missinghina’s voice filled the car. “Where is Darquesse now?”