[As clearly as you could, Skulduggery? That’s…really very depressing.]

Ah, those realities. Hm. [It is an absolutely mind-bending idea, but it’s one that Pal thinks makes a sort of sense. He thinks.] So there are sort of…branching realities? One version of us continues on the path we were on back in our own universes, while another version takes a detour here. And you are the product of another reality that has somehow been both here and there at the same time. [He rubs his temple] God, that is infuriatingly metaphysical. The Captain told you all of this?