One man's breakdown is another man's therapeutic release. That's how it goes!

"I thought the same when I first arrived, but I've come to realize that it isn't our misery that's required; everything we experience here fuels his magic. Pain, anguish, and death are, I assume, simply the easiest experiences to generate."

Smith is too new to know about the excursions, and it wasn't until the last one that Skulduggery had come to understand things more clearly. Still, trying to explain everything at once may be too much for a man barely able to suspend his disbelief in the face of a talking skeleton...

"I've been chewing on our circumstances for a while. If you have questions, I can try to answer them, but I can't guarantee it'll make any sense..."