I'll update the book every Sunday Wednesday and Friday.

Chapter 1.

The gold band.

"What now, Sanguine. Are you gonna kill me!"

Valkyrie cried her tears falling on the lifeless skull of skulduggery.

"Kill you Stephanie . Never." Sanguine said dropping his razor. "After all you are my daughter."

"BED!" Cried dad closing the book.

" Come on..You can't stop now! Just one more chapter!"

Begged the eleven year old Abbie from her top bunk.

"Bed! I' m tired my eyes are sore. It's time for BED!" Dad sighed.

He got up off the bottom bunk and place the book and his glasses down by Abbie's TV. On top of her '50 magic tricks made easy" book.

"Ok. Goodnight!" Abbie finally said giving in.

"What's that?" Asked Dad pointing at Abbie's wrist.

"What's what?" Abbie asked back.

"That!"

He tapped a band wrapped three or four times on her wrist. "It looks expensive. Is that real gold treading?"

"Oh it's just a band I found on my school tour." She mumbled pulling her arm away, worried her dad would take it.

"Your tour to the ancient Newgrange tomb?" Dad asked.

"I found it when I snuke back into the chamber after our tour ended."

"And what made you sneak back into the tombs chamber after the tour?" Dad asked.

"I was looking for a keepsake.-" Abbie answered.

"-And I found one. It was behind the rock the beam of light hit."

"What beam of light?" Dad sighed in disbelief.

"The red beam of light that shot down the chamber corridor when I was in it. It lit up the rock in the wall and when I looked behind it. Well...I found this."

Abbie answered shaking her wrist the band jangled.

"I asked lots of people if they had lost it. No one had."

"Like who did you ask?"

"Lots of people." Abbie smiled her freckled round face and dimples looked like butter wouldn't melt.

"For god sake Abbie! Some tourist could have lost that and are looking for it right now!" Dad gave out. "It could be a family earldom or something."

"They lost it behind a rock in the wall?" Abbie asked doubtful.

Dad glared at her.

"Tomorrow we phone Newgrange and see if anyone is looking for it."

Dad told her and switched off the light.

"Ouch! ". He yelled banging his foot off something on the dark floor. It was Abbie's hurly stick. *

He cursed the untidy floor.

"Get this room cleaned before someone trips and dies!"

"I will." Abbie lied and watched her dad limp out saying "Goodnight!"

Strange Abbie thought she doesn't remember bring her hurl into her room.

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* A hurly or Hurl is a sports stick used in the game of hurly in Ireland . A bit like a hockey stick.

....Thanks for reading folks I'll update next Sunday with chapters 2 very short and 3 on Wednesday . :-)

Chapter 2. Breathing.