Skulduggery Pleasant: Books 7 - 9 - Derek Landy

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       45 THE PERFECT BODY

       46 THE PROBLEMS WITH MORTALS

       47 INTO THE PALACE

       48 KITANA’S QUANDARY

       49 THE DEAL

       50 SUPERCHARGED

       51 ARGEDDION FALLS

       52 FEARFUL SYMMETRY

       53 A LITTLE BIT OF WAR

       54 HEAD OVER HEELS

       55 A HAPPY ENDING

       EPILOGUE

      t was a beautiful spring day and they were standing on the roof.

      “Do it,” said Kitana. Her voice was low but urgent, tinged with an excitement that bubbled up from somewhere within her. Her straight white teeth bit lightly on her bottom lip. Her face was flushed. Her eyes sparkled. So eager to learn a new way to hurt people.

      Doran turned to the chimney and held out his hand. He grunted, his face going red and the muscles in his neck standing out. It looked pretty funny until his hand started to glow. There was a light under his skin, and it was getting brighter the more he concentrated.

      “Oh, great,” said Sean. “We have the power of flashlights. Let the world beware.”

      “Quiet,” Kitana said sharply. “Let him focus.”

      Sean didn’t like it when Kitana dismissed him like that. Elsie could see it in his face. Angry, embarrassed, hurt. If Elsie had ever taken that tone with him, she doubted he’d even notice. Not that she ever would treat him like that. She wasn’t like Kitana, who could spend a whole day mocking him and then, with one smile the next day, would have him back under her thumb.

      Elsie wasn’t mean like Kitana, but then she wasn’t pretty like her, either, or blonde like her, or slim like her. She was fat and ugly and all the dyed hair and black clothes and pierced lips in the world couldn’t hide that.

      A beam of light shot from Doran’s hand, crackling and sizzling, and blasted a hole through the chimney.

      Kitana whooped with joy and Sean stared, mouth open. Doran dropped his hand and grinned.

      “It was easier that time,” he said. “Gets easier the more you do it.”

      Kitana ran to his side. “Teach me! Oh my God, teach me now!”

      Doran

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