"We're all going to have read every book in the library simply for lack of anything else to do." He hasn't quite gotten that bored yet, but he's close. It's hard for him to enjoy fiction, he doesn't have the capacity for creativity and imagination that would allow him to really relate to it. In movies he has the visuals to accompany the story, but in a book it winds up simply being words on a page.

"True. Perhaps the confusion is part of it. I know that's been entertaining the detective types. Skulduggery and Jade have definitely been treating this as a problem to solve. I've refrained from telling them I don't think it's possible to figure out simply because there's no rules or logical sense to be found. They do seem to be enjoying themselves in the attempt. No harm in letting them try."