"I'd say the place is packed. The only trouble is, we can't see all the other passengers." Or what's left of them, anyway. "I know there were more passengers like us fifteen years ago, and I know one of them is now some kind of... storm giant. The rest, as far as I can tell, are floating around next to us. All I want to do is make sure I don't end up like that."

And after the party's over, Skulduggery figures it'll be time to finally stop lollygagging and start actually trying to deal with the situation at hand. The shock has to wear off at some point -- he's over 400 years old, for crying out loud. Getting mysteriously zapped into a strange dimension should be nothing.