Skulduggery decides not to mention the shrimp colors for now. He'll save that mind-bending bit of information for after Smith has settled in and gotten used to the more mundane strangeness of the ship. ...Which, apparently, includes shapeshifting, ghosts, and voids inside heads.

"I suspect you wouldn't be the first, although he'd probably ask you to specify from which religion." There's a distinct dryness to his delivery, as if he were commenting on an acquaintance's exasperating quirk. "The whole thing is literally and figuratively mad."