provoke you.”
“Unhand me, filthy creature!”
“Me? I’m just trying to be nice.”
“Stop the filthy creature from speaking to me!”
“Oh, for God’s sake...”
Scorn pushed her away. “God? God? You know not what a true god looks like! You are a blasphemer! You may not gaze upon me!”
“I know not? ” Valkyrie said. “Why do religious freaks talk like this? It’s always religious freaks and villains.” She frowned over at Serpine. “And how come she’ll let you gaze upon her but not me?”
“Because I’m not a blasphemer,” Serpine replied, as Scorn rose to her knees and clasped her hands in muttered prayer.
“Wait a minute,” Valkyrie said. “You still worship the Faceless Ones? Then why did you turn against Mevolent?”
“Because he’s insane,” Serpine answered, “and ridiculous, and I thought I’d win. Why does anyone do anything?”
Valkyrie blinked. “So you haven’t reformed?”
“Why should I reform? You people are the ones in the wrong here.”
Scorn nodded. “Filthy blaspheming creatures, that’s what they are. Their souls will be burned.”
“Oh, shut up,” Valkyrie said.
“Found it,” Skulduggery said. They all turned. He pointed at the wall next to him. “The tunnel starts here.”
“Heathen!” Scorn screamed. She jumped up, ran forward and fell over, as expected. Skulduggery ignored her.
“Despite all the distractions she barely took her eyes off me,” he said, “and every time I passed this area her mouth tightened. This is where she didn’t want me looking.”
“So that device isn’t for detecting tunnels?” Serpine asked.
Skulduggery returned his phone to his pocket. “No, it’s not. It’s for making calls and playing Angry Birds.”
Scorn tried to get up off the floor but Valkyrie put a foot on her back. “Blasphemers! You’ll never find the lever!”
“We don’t need it,” Skulduggery said. He placed his gloved hands on the wall and focused. After a few seconds, the whole thing started to tremble. Bricks cracked, crumbled, moved aside and fell, and the tunnel was revealed. He looked back at them. “Eliza, you’ve been a big help, but we can take it from here.”
She screamed at them.
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