Good thing, too, because Skulduggery's hand is not good enough to win even fictional money. "You are indeed. I don't know anything concrete, but the pieces are all there. I'm assuming it's a creature, but he could be a very powerful sorcerer. Or... I don't know, whatever you guys have. Technomancy?"

He has no idea and he is too old to care. "Either way, something about the captain requires our torment to... live? Or maybe it's incidental to survival -- maybe it just enjoys the taste of our fear."