If you change your mind about bashing me to bits, I wouldn't recommend telling me first. [Pragmatic as always, even if he's a little... you know.

That curious tone, however, draws a bit of uneasy clarity from Skulduggery. While he doubts Pal would be able to force a skip, he doesn't doubt that the necromancer might be stupid enough to try.]

You'll lose all sense of reality either way. I'm not sitting here with you and Gordon in this silly sun-hat because I've become more grounded and rational, you know. [Which is probably the first time he's actually mentioned his hallucinations to anyone outside of Ava and Max...] I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. Well... Actually, I would. But not you.