Skulduggery ran in, fire in both his hands. He stopped in the middle of the room and sent twin streams of flame down into the hole. Valkyrie heard screams and shouts and a lot more cursing. Suddenly he doused the flames and crouched, fingers splayed out on the ground. The floor rumbled, cracked, and belched clouds of dust into the air as the tunnel caved in beneath them.
Skulduggery looked up. “Everyone OK?”
Tanith nodded. Valkyrie raised an eyebrow. “Another one of your new tricks?” she panted.
“Just the natural progression of earth manipulation. I’ll have to teach it to you sometime.”