"I what," Raine said, flatly, not at all seeing the mirth in this situation. She folded her arms across her chest, fingers tapping against her elbow, and she waited for Solomon to stop laughing and come back to a somewhat more sensible method of argument.

She did not at all sound like Skulduggery. ...Did she? Regardless of the irritation Solomon was currently generating, she reviewed the last exchange with an eye to some of Skulduggery's foolishness.

"I am hardly about to end the world for not informing my friends of a-- a phobia," she said when he had done laughing, and her tone was edging toward tart.