[Pal knits his brows together. Okay, maybe he shouldn’t fault Skulduggery for explaining things poorly. For a moment, Pal thought he had understood, but now the meaning slips away like water through cupped hands.] But I am right that there is a version of us back there, where we came from? Doing what we are meant to be doing?

[It’s a relief, in some ways. That other him can still find his way back to Camilla, they can work with Gideon and Harrow to finish what they’d started before everything went to hell at Canaan House.]

[He suppresses a smile] That does sound cathartic.