There you go again. 'Verbose'. Would you believe he couldn't speak a word of English last night?
[Valkyrie turns to look at Kratos. She's not surprised, exactly, but there's still a measure of suspicion on her face.] Is your magic to do with languages? We met someone like that once.
Did we?
Miss Nuncio, remember? In the Hotel?
Oh, yes, we did. She was useless in a fight.
[Valkyrie sighs.] Okay, what's up?
What?
You don't act like this unless something's wrong. So what's up? [She hesitates.] Unless it's the obvious thing, in which case we really don't have to talk about it.
[It's as good an explanation as any, so Skulduggery lets Valkyrie assume what she'd like and changes the subject.] So, Kratos. Now that we can hold a halfway decent conversation, are skeletons usually verbose in Aselia?
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[Valkyrie turns to look at Kratos. She's not surprised, exactly, but there's still a measure of suspicion on her face.] Is your magic to do with languages? We met someone like that once.
Did we?
Miss Nuncio, remember? In the Hotel?
Oh, yes, we did. She was useless in a fight.
[Valkyrie sighs.] Okay, what's up?
What?
You don't act like this unless something's wrong. So what's up? [She hesitates.] Unless it's the obvious thing, in which case we really don't have to talk about it.
[It's as good an explanation as any, so Skulduggery lets Valkyrie assume what she'd like and changes the subject.] So, Kratos. Now that we can hold a halfway decent conversation, are skeletons usually verbose in Aselia?