[He doubts he'll ever be able to tell her everything. He can hardly comprehend it all himself. All that matters to him is that she doesn't run away. It makes the whole thing feel so much closer to tolerable.
That lingering remnant of Gordon clears his throat one more time and excuses himself off down the deck. Skulduggery doesn't watch him go.]
She did? So it isn't just me... [Which is unfortunate. But it explains what Friday had said -- that nobody comes back happier than before. Jinx, he assumes, must have had an equally rough time, either in her reality or with the shift in general.] It's completely random. I don't know how often it happens. [Or will happen. He doesn't know what's waiting for him further down the line; right now, he isn't interested in finding out.]
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That lingering remnant of Gordon clears his throat one more time and excuses himself off down the deck. Skulduggery doesn't watch him go.]
She did? So it isn't just me... [Which is unfortunate. But it explains what Friday had said -- that nobody comes back happier than before. Jinx, he assumes, must have had an equally rough time, either in her reality or with the shift in general.] It's completely random. I don't know how often it happens. [Or will happen. He doesn't know what's waiting for him further down the line; right now, he isn't interested in finding out.]